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Birds' Malian coach in E3 000 taxi debt

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MBABANE – Mbabane Swallows’ Malian coach Alou Badara allegedly owes a local taxi man a sum of close to E3 000 which he has failed to settle for over a week now.

Badara is alleged to have hired the taxi man to ferry him to Johannesburg where he had gone to fetch his car, a white Toyota Tazz which he is now driving in the country.

Information sourced from reliable sources is that the trip only took a day, as they came back on the same day.

The trip cost the coach E2000 while the E900 was incurred in other costs which could not be clearly esta-blished. It was also gathered that the taxi is normally used to ferry guests to one of the lodges owned by a prominent businessman around time.

Bill

The trip was undertaken last week, but at the time of going to press last night, the coach had still not settled the bill even though it was confirmed that he finally contacted the taxi man and promised to get back to him after yesterday’s training session with Swallows.

The taxi trades under the name D & D Taxi Services and when the taxi amn was reached, he confirmed transporting the Malian mentor and also not receiving his full pay but part of it.

Masilela, the driver, hinted that if his money was not paid, he would consider confiscating the coach’s car until he was paid in full.

Asked how much the coach owed him, Masilela asked not reveal any figures for now, saying he wanted to give the coach a chance to call him as he had promised to do so after training. However, he did say the coach owed quite a large amount of money as he only paid a small part of it.

Efforts to get Alou to comment failed despite several calls made to him while the team’s secretary Sibusiso Manana would not commit himself on the matter, saying he did not even know how the coach’s car got here hence it was best Alou spoke for himself.

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