That could be deeply damaging to Kamanga, who will run for a seat on the Fifa council in elections due to take place on 12 March in Cairo and has been backed by the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) and Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa).
He reported Kamanga and other senior members of Faz to Zambia’s anti-corruption commission and its drug enforcement commission (DEC), which handles allegations of fraud and malpractice, a few hours after the news was made public on Tuesday, claiming they forged and altered the constitution to prevent the other candidates from standing.
“I would rather be banned by Fifa because Andrew Kamanga has been committing crimes against football in Zambia and getting away with it for many years,” Chikumbi says.
Faz’s general secretary, Reuben Kamanga, was also arrested and charged, along with Madalitso Kamanga and Jairous Siame, who travelled to the tournament as part of Faz’s support staff.
That, he says, is down to Andrew Kamanga, who in 2016 succeeded Kalusha Bwalya, one of the few surviving members of the 1993 squad, as president of the FA (Faz).
