Zambia national rugby team players Benaya Mukwamba and Patrick Chanda of Diggers have received long-term bans from the game.
Mukwamba and Chanda has been handed a four and two year bans respectively  from the game for their part in the brutal assault on referee Caution Bweupe last month in a ZRFU league game between Diggers and Arrows.
Mukwamba and Chanda together with club mate Lawrence Njovu were found guilty of assaulting Bweupe on August 14 in Lusaka at the end of a Week 16 match Diggers lost 8-5 to Arrows.
Njovu received a two-year ban.
Bweupe was left with a broken nose and left unconscious following his assault before being rushed to the hospital after Diggers players accosted him.
The ZRFU disciplinary committee statement said the players escaped life bans despite the magnitude of the offence after witnesses allegedly withheld further evidence pertaining to the case although the issue was still active and being pursued by the police.
The statement read: “Benaya Mukwamba : Since he is not a first offender in such incidents having earlier been involved in the incident between Chibuluma and Diggers, he is banned from all rugby activities for four (4) years.
“Patrick Chanda and Lawrence Njovu: As first offenders, they are banned from all rugby activities for two (02) years. Chris Chileshe and Frank Chansa (all Diggers RC former player and supporter) Are banned for life from all rugby activities, including patronizing any ZRFU affiliated Rugby Club.”
Meanwhile, two other persons Timothy Nkhoma and Sydney Ngosa were cleared of any charges since there was no direct evidence against them.
There goes your profession. Hope you can find a replacement to provide for yourselves and your families.
Violence in sport …were these hooligans drunk? LOL
This current crop of MMD leaders ,acts first and thinks later simply because of big mpuno wants things done his way , but remember big mpuno was never a founding member of MMD and by that i seriously doubt if he has even read the MMD party constitution .
Which clearly states that a MMD NEC needs to be re elected every 5 years and the last NEC was voted in , between july 13 and 17th 2005 which means that this current NEC has actualy over stayed its mandate which constitutionaly (MMD) expired on july 17th 2010 , so the NEC that conveined to expell Mpombo and mangande actauly in leagal tearms has no mandate . so this is the window opening that they the MMD did not realise when expelling these two MP’s and as such will bite them
They deserved what they got. I do not subscribe to such barbaric behavior.
BA nkana west ubukopo…….
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No room for thugs is sport bafikam.ba
Yaba….! These are two of our best players pa diggers. In two years time, these guys will be unfit to play, kaili fi chibuku baaaaad!
just following our heavy weight uncle GMB’s example! bane dont let anyone abuse you verbally ku vaponona ba fipwele. eh! kuno tuvasungu they like being slapped when u foooking them haha. slap slap then wayingila