The SGM voted out the Bakwadi-led committee through a motion of no confidence passed by Shito-Ryu Shukokai and seconded by Kofukan. Bakwadi told SportMonitor that the meeting was illegal and any decision taken there is not recognised. “Federations are clear in the letters that they wrote pulling out of the petition. Nobody can make decisions as individuals on behalf of federations. I do not accept the outcome of the SGM. Those people are just wasting their time claiming to be the BOKA interim committee. It was just a group of friends having a conversation, nothing discussed there is binding,” Bakwadi lashed out.
The meeting was attended by five disgruntled federations who have been dealt a bad card by the BOKA leadership. Ahead of the SGM, BOKA warned that federations that will attend the SGM will face suspension or even expulsion because the gathering was illegal and decisions taken at the meeting are not recognised. The meeting was attended by five federations being Kofukan, Goju-Kai, Karate Nomichi, Shito-Ryu Shukokai Union and Ryushin-Kan. The meeting started off by discussing issues that the federations had raised in the petition that they had submitted to the BOKA office in January. Some of the issues in the petition included violation of the constitution, lack of financial transparency, non compliance with constitutional procedure, unlawful appointments, arbitrary termination of members and non implementation of the Annual General Meeting (AGM). Debating the petition, Ookeditse Malesu (Shukokai) said the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) is clear that a treasurer appointed by national sport associations (NSAs) must be qualified and BICA accredited, but that was not the case with the BOKA treasurer. “We cannot expect our sport to grow when people are allowed to break the law just because they are favoured by the system,” he said. Veronica Chube (Kofukan) said the BNSC should have stopped funding BOKA because they did not follow the requirements of a treasurer. The SGM adopted that points raised in the petition were enough for a motion of no confidence to be passed against the Bakwadi-led committee.
