Moses Chunga, Fanuel Bayayi: The prodigal or lost sons!

THE Holy Bible in the book of Matthew gives us a parable of a young man who went to his father and asked for his share of his father's wealth.
 
The father obliged and gave the young man all that was due to him and the young man went and used it all in another land.

We are told he unwisely used all that his father had given him to a point that he got pathetically broke, poor and desperate.
 
As a result of the young man's news societal status, he decided to go back to his father and plead for mercy, food, accommodation and all again.

Because the father loved his son, he accepted him back at home with all benefits.
 
Out of this good story, those who translated the Bible to Vernacular IsiNdebele translated the term prodigal son to "indodana yolahleko." This would mean the one who got lost and came back.

The thesaurus dictionary has the following synonyms for the word prodigal: wasteful, reckless, extravagant, uncontrolled etc. To clearly highlight the difference between a prodigal and indodana yolahleko let us get closer to the life styles of Moses Bambo Chunga and former Masotsha-Ndlovu Senator Fanuel Bayayi.

The story of Moses Chunga is an interesting tale better told today when he is alive than when he leaves this earth to join his maker.

He is a football coach who has played and coached Zimbabwean football proficiently at both club and national level.

Soccer clubs that Chunga has coached include the great Harare giants – Dynamos where he made his name, army side Black Rhinos, the steel makers, Lancaster Steel and Gunners.

Then interestingly there is CAPS United Football Club which Chunga has coached  "several" times on different contracts.

One thing that seems constant about Chunga is that every year he quits a soccer club and joins another but somehow will eventually go back to CAPS United.

Need I say, perhaps sports writers should establish a trend and designate a "National Chunga Quits Day" as a sporting holiday of some sort.

Just a week or two ago, Chunga fund a n Club- Gunners after quitting at CAPS United.

Every time Chunga quits he cites maladministration of the club he works for, lack of support from his bosses (financial and moral), and generally unfathomable working conditions.

This time around, he says he "knew" that his boss Twine Phiri never wanted him when he gave him the contract.

Enough about Chunga lets pray he will stay at Gunners and hopefully not leave them and go back to Makepeke.

Then enter Fanuel Bayayi the politician….

When the then united MDC split on 12 October 2005, Fanuel Fayayi went with the later Gibson Sibanda group, now led by Professor Welshman Ncube.
He was elected senator for Masotsha-Ndlovu constituency which included Pumula and Magwegwe House of Assembly constituencies.

Bayayi got also elected as the Pumula district chairperson of the MDC in 2006 and served in the leadership that lost to the MDC led by Mr Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008.

He lost his senatorial seat to Enna Chitsa by a very wide margin and was a prelude to some turns and twists in his political and social life.

The former senator began to use his car that he got from parliament scheme as a pirate taxi and ran down that car ,completely destroyed it within four years of its life from 2005-2009.

He deserted the district he chaired in his party (Pumula) and went to look for some job in Botswana, I met him then and asked what he was doing and he replied – "ngiyahlanganisa" – meaning he was some dealer or a jack of all trades.

However Bayayi continued wanting to run the Pumula district from the Diaspora and was eventually ousted as chairperson and replaced by former city father – Clr Peter Makarabha in February 2011.

From there he joined a group of "wounded lions" working with one Sheppard Ndlela, Younger Moyo and Beauty Kerr in organizing meetings for Professor Arthur Oliver Guseni Mutambara in Bulawayo between April and May 2011.

This was the period when Prof Mutambara was still busy with his dream of leading the MDC N for life despite not contesting any election at its 7-9 January 2011 congress which chose the law expert Prof Ncube as the leader of the party.

None of the meetings that Bayayi organized ever materialized surprisingly.

Bayayi was then nicodimously approached by the MDC T and promised candidature for the Masotsha-Ndlovu constituency and shockingly the constituency is currently held by MDC T deputy national of the women's assembly Enna Chitsa and one wonders if she can be laid aside for him.

Then Bayayi was paraded at the MDC T White City star rally as a defactee from the MDC led by Prof Ncube alongside other "alleged" defectors that included the late Gibson Sibanda's children – Mbuso and Thandi.

So what?

Moses Chunga and Fanuel Bayayi are but prodigal or lost sons of soccer and politics respectively.

They will belong to you, benefit, see foul and move on.

But when chips are down and their fame is at stake, they will eventually come back to you, plead unending allegiance, you give them a job, parade them and they make merry, but for how long?

Is it society that has created such fellows who are consistent in doing disorder about their lifestyles or it is society that has failed to understand the nature of such fellows.

What is the solution then?

Is it letting go and ex-communicating the chaps or creating proper forums for them to do as they can?

Any lessons from Chunga and Bayayi, yes – I submit ----what you vomit never eat again, it must upset your bowels and soil your reputation forever.

Sadly it is such people with the rare talent that major in inconsistency and there seems to be no remedy to save their hop -step and jump approach to life.....