Kenyan Premier League champions, Gor Mahia are contemplating on not taking part in the 2015 CECAFA Kagame Club Championship that starts next week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
According to nairobinews.co.ke there is a standoff between the tournament’s organizers and Football Kenya Federation (KFK) over airfare costs.
The CECAFA General Secretary, Nicholas Musonye who also happens to a native of Kenya said,
Kenya is once again going back on its word. CECAFA met its members in Nairobi, Cairo and Zurich over the past seven months and we all agreed that federations will facilitate the teams’ travel to this competition, and CECAFA does the rest. I am not having such problems from Burundi, Djibouti and even Somalia, why only Kenya?
Another Kenyan website futaa.com released letters Gor Mahia’s assistant secretary general, Ronald Ngala exchanged with FKF CEO, Michael Esakwa.
We hereby wish to inform your office that our club intend to travel to Tanzania on Thursday 16, 2015 with a contingent of 30 people for the opening match of the above-mentioned tournament (CECAFA Club Championship) against Young Africans FC (Yanga) on Saturday 18, 2015 at the National Stadium. The list will come your way as soon as your office is ready to issues the tickets. Thanking you in advance for your kind consideration and continued support
Esakwa responded;
We acknowledge receiving your letter dated 6th July 2015 and taken note of the contents therein. Football Kenya Federation is regrettably not in a position to grant your request for air tickets.We however wish your Club well in the CECAFA Club Championship 2015 Edition
The K’Ogalo who have won the region championship thrice (1980, 1981, 1985) are supposed to depart for Tanzania on July 16, two days before the highly-billed clash against host team Yanga SC at the National Stadium.
CECAFA CUP GROUPS: July 18 – August 2
Group A: Yanga (Tz), Gor Mahia (Kenya), Khartoum (Sudan), Telecom (Somalia), KMKM (Tz)
Group B: APR (Rwanda), Al Ahly Shandy (Tz), LLB (Burundi), Elman (Somalia)
Group C: KCC, Azam (Tz), Malakia (S. Sudan), Adama City (Ethiopia)
