FCB Nyasa Bullets have pleaded with the team’s followers to help in the recovery of trophies that went missing before Nyasa Manufacturing Company took over the club’s ownership.
In a statement posted on the club’s official Facebook page, Bullets who delight in the glory of being the most successful team on the domestic scene, wrote: “Show your love for the People’s Team by returning a trophy in your possession to the club’s offices and get a jersey as a token of appreciation.
“Return the trophies, honour the legacy.”
One of the people that commented on the post, who identified himself as Elton Nankhwere, attributed the situation to lack of a clubhouse.
“Vuto losakhala ndi clubhouse ndi limeneli, Zikho zina ziri mu Mbayani mu, zina ankagulitsa kwa a scrap metals [that’s the problem of not having a clubhouse where these trophies would have been safely kept. Some of these trophies are in Mbayani while others were sold to scrap metal dealers],” he wrote.
The club’s acting chief executive officer Albert Chigoga said in an interview that the trophy recovery campaign looks promising.
“There has been huge progress. Some people have spoken to us on their willingness to return the trophies as well as help us in recovering others,” he said.
“We need all the trophies kept at one place for posterity’s sake.”
The team’s legend Kinnah Phiri, considered by many as the greatest player Biullets has ever produced, said it is sad that the club lost almost all the cups it won especially between late 1960s to the turn of the millennium.
He said: “Bullets won countless trophies, especially during our time and it pains that they all went missing because in a way, history is being erased.
“I, therefore, hail the club for its initiative and join in calling all those keeping the trophies to return them.”
