Shah promises financial stability at BPL

Shah PIC:MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Shah PIC:MORERI SEJAKGOMO

New Botswana Premier League (BPL) chairperson, Jagdish Shah has promised to make the organisation financially stable. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the millionaire businessman, who will be interim chairperson for three months, said he wants the BPL to have a “strong back pocket” after his tenure.

“In the BPL there are so many areas where we need to achieve. (It) may be the players’ welfare, the teams’ welfare, the financial sustainability or the sponsorship criteria.

There are so many areas but for me in this period, my first and foremost target is how I make it more sustainable financially. Most of you know that every dream can be achieved when you have a strong back pocket, so in these three months I am going to work on how to make the secretariat (financially) strong enough, so they don’t keep worrying about the day to day financial problems,” he said.

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