Banned CCL golfers seek court injunction
Country Club Limbe (CCL) golfers Imran Daudi and Levison Kapito are seeking a court injunction to stop their club from banning them for a year for alleged bad conduct during the Old Mutual Tournament in August.
Lawyer Steve Msiska confirmed yesterday that he has filed the complaint at the High Court to ensure the two golfers “continue enjoying their right of contesting in golf competitions at the CCL as their suspension was meted out without calling them for a hearing”.
The suspension from the CCL greens is the second ban for the two golfers as they were also suspended from any golfing activity at Blantyre Sports Club (BSC) for five years for the same offence.
“Unlike the BSC ban, the CCL suspension seems out of line because it came before my clients were called to a hearing. We feel the ban was unjustly imposed on them. Therefore, we are lodging a complaint at the High Court,” said Msiska.
He said the High Court has since summoned the two conflicting parties to a hearing before they can go through the normal court proceedings.
“We will have this special meeting soon after my clients return from Ntcheu where they are attending a funeral,” he said.
Daudi and Kapito protested their exclusion from the prize receiving list after it was discovered their club had not yet subscribed to the computerised South African Golf Association (Saga) handicapping system, which was effected countrywide on August 1.
According to Kapito, they only knew about the CCL ban after they queried why they were removed from the list of contestants during last week’s NBS Bank Monthly Mug.
CCL golf captain Ronwell Malikita told The Nation on Tuesday that the issue cannot be sorted out in the courts because the right of admission at the club is reserved.
But Golf Union of Malawi (GUoM) president James Chimwaza said their body does not restrict any golfer from seeking justice in the ordinary court of law.
