Following weeks of uncertainty regarding the takeover of BMC, businessman, Daruosh Ghodrati, finally assumed ownership of the club, it was announced on Wednesday. Ghodrati owns 80 percent stake in the team while the supporters remain with 20 percent.The new owner will assume the responsibility of paying players and the technical team as from August 1 this year. At the signing ceremony held in Gaborone on Wednesday, the head of Human Capital at BMC, Thomas Ntobedzi, said they will pay all debts accumulated by the club so the new owner could start on a clean slate. "We shall pay both the players and the technical team until the end of July," he added.
Ntobezdi pointed out following the commission's decision to disinvest from both BMC and ECCO City Greens, they are happy to have found an interested party to take over BMC, the club. He said they would continue to look for potential investors for ECCO. The Commission took a decision early this year to gradually pull out of sponsoring the two teams because of financial challenges. They had set October as the deadline month for the complete pullout. With BMC now in new hands, the search for the takeover of Mamoja Diskie continues by both the commission and the current executive committee of the team.
