Aspirants accuse Rachier of rigging
Aspirants for various positions at the December 11 club elections have accused Chairman Ambrose Rachier of creating barriers to entry to ensure that he is re-elected
According to Citizen Sports, the incumbent Executive Committee hired overseas based IFEOS to carry out the registration and aspirants claim the firm has been compromised.
““The spirit of justice and fairness has been defeated by the interference from the Executive Committee led by Rachier. How will IFEOS operate independently yet their selection was done in secret?” Dan Oketch an aspirant for the Chairmanship asked.
The aspirants also accused the current office bearers of violating the club Constitution by hiking the registration fee.
“What were the criteria behind raising it from the Ksh100 to 500? Who ratified this increase, given the club has not held an Annual General Meeting for two years? We want to know the system put in place, if any, to ensure the so called online registration is not abused and only credible Gor fans participate in the process,” continued Oketch.
Chris Omondi, also an aspirant for the Chairmanship, accused the club of not taking steps taken to create awareness and educate fans on the new online registration warning the more stakeholders are locked out of the exercise, the election will be compromised and defeat its purpose.
“We demand the office to engage aspirants and members in the appointment of an independent Electoral Board which must be involved right from voter registration to election in consultation with all stakeholders,” said Omondi to Citizen sports.
How many press conferences will these guys hold to complain? Yes, it was unfair to hire IFEOS unprocedurally, but they can beat the EC at their own game by bringing out their supporters to register en masse. Secondly hiking the registration fee to 500 may be an advantage to them since they draw most of their support base from the more ‘affluent’ members of the Kogallo family while Rachier is dependent on the ones you like calling bhang smokers who can not afford even the gate charges most games. So instead of whining get your’ social media’ fanbase out of their key boards and into the trenches. Finally if the EC is not educating stakeholders on online registration make it your secret weapon, educate the masses and run away with it
This is typical Kenyan way of doing things. Who are they complaining to? With two matches to go to the end of the league can they also tell us what they have done to the team or are doing to ensure we win the last two matches ? At least some of us pay to watch and cheer the boys.
As it is looks like the Char’s post might not be advisable for this group. Watafute SG, reasurer na hizo zingine. That’s my personal view.
And by the way now that some of us have registered through the online registration what next?
True @Dan Original, the team is busy preparing for the two mouth watering clash and needs focus, what have they done to the team in readiness of the upcoming fixtures, let EC not divert the energy in responding to these issues until when the league is over then people can campaign
You cost us registration by CAF ,since you disrupted the meeting called to discuss proposed constitution by pointing out the gaps. Cheap reasoning, we were not provided with copies of the same in advance.
1.A responsible leader should have requested for the documents and make copies himself,
2.He have listen to facilitator outline clause by clause and raised queries,should have sponsor extended sittings for detail deliberations.
3.Irresponsible leader was focused on elections, asking chairman a bout gate collection and organizing thugs to chase hi away – aiming news headline will read tomorrow-Gor mahia branch officials chased GMFC CHAIRMAN. YOU did not want GMFC to be champion this year so that you may use the same against current chairman. I registered on online and i will not vote for you period.
N/b-ignore grammar errors.
Kwani, we don’t have better options than this fellows, who seems to have lost even before starting.
I might not like the current EC but these guys instead of asking us to register by any other means so that we can vote for them they are discouraging us. I would wish them to tell us how they will run GM better than AR/Ngala etc. These are the same things that happen at Ingwe, officials/TB changed at will but with no results.
As much as we need the CHANGES let’s get them in an organized way and not for the sake of change. We currently have two sponsors what are they doing to get us a third or fourth?
I see things a bit differently. A)Chris Omondi has put forward a manifesto but very few critiqued it,but some are now very vocal that they should be told how he will run GM.Has he pledged more than the stadium AR promised over the last 2 elections?Where is AR’s manifesto this time?AR has totally failed on CAF,both on the field and licensing issue/deadline a fact known for the last DECADE.Does Dan have a manifesto? Here I rate Chris=1,AR=2 and Dan=3. B)If you want to buy a medical container for kshs.10m that is your prerogative,however currently GM’s constitution says membership fee is kshs.100 not 400 period. C)AFC’s chair has suspended 5 players on the basis to them the last 2 games are immaterial.Note a while ago AR refused to intervene in the Gattuso crisis saying twas upto the TB.Could we have won the league by now had the issue been sorted out earlier? WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION ARE THERE PERSONS WHO DIDN’T WANT GM TO WIN THE LEAGUE B4 THE CAF DEADLINE, BUT NOW NEED A LEAGUE TITLE TO BE ELECTED.
@ODUOR, with all due respect, why do you think Chris should come first in your ranking? Any achievements, awards either managerial or professional to make him first among equals? Anyone can write a wonderful manifesto so that alone should not be a qualification.
Yes,Chris has a manifesto,AR and Dan for now DO NOT.Note AR had even “better” manifestos not for one but for the last 2 elections whereby he made lofty promises at(noone forced him) CECAFA,CAF,building not only a stadium but apartments for players.Now did Kenya cease to exist after 24 years of Moi/Kanu? AR has done better than his immediate predecessors but given the TIME & RESOURCES he has had managing the GM BRAND,has he bettered the greatest achievements of GM under past chairs.Has he put in place structures (CAF licensing) toward this? In short as i have repeated. FOOTBALL IS ABOUT WINNING TITLES. LET ASPIRANTS COMMIT TO THEIR PLEDGES BY SIGNING YEARLY PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS. CAVEAT MEMBERS MUST HAVE OUR MINIMUM CONDITIONS BEING 1)QUALIFICATION FOR A CAF TOURNAMENT 2)REACH AT LEAST THE SEMIS OF ALL CECAFA WE PARTICIPATE IN 3)REACH AT LEAST THE GROUP STAGES/ 3RD ROUND OF ALL CAF TOURNAMENTS WE PARTICIPATE IN. HAVE A RECALL CLAUSE FOR NON PERFORMANCE. THAT WAY CHAIR CAN BE AR,CHRIS,DAN EVEN MJ.
To answer your direct question, Musymo infact the question is WHETHER the manifesto is PRACTICAL.Is it ACHIEVEABLE? IS IT IN LINE WITH THE MINIMUM STANDARDS SET BY MEMBERS i.e constitution? Next, which i keep on repeating if an aspirant(s) is not willing to convert his/their manifestos into a yearly written, signed performance contract and agree to a recall clause for non-performance during evaluation at the AGM, then there you have your JOKER. Without a manifesto how will you and i know why an aspirant wants to be an official of GMFC? Let AR, & Co. not fear to put forward their manifestos or are they waiting for the 11th as with the CAF licensing. On experience both negative and positive he’s no.1,Chris=2, Dan=3.Just my thoughts and with that i hope GMFC wins a 4th straight title.
Forget about these people. There is this small matter called Muhoroni on Saturday in Kisumu. Then pray let Ingwe do what they can do on Sunday, then we do what we can on 19th November, kwani whats the matter? There after we can listen to whoever has something to tell us, not people who have to say something.
@ODUOR12, do not be duped with manifestos please, all we need now is new constitution that anchors in lean EC with cheques and balances that will streamline daily operations. I think this is more important before anything
Well said @Bob. Manifestos everyone has but a robust constitution will go a long way to ensure that those manifestos are implemented or the person gives way because they cannot implement them
You are so right in fact GMFC’s constitution should just have the following bare minimums or higher demands:
AS A GOR MAHIA OFFICIAL, MORE SO THE CHAIRMAN YOUR YEARLY PERFORMANCE TARGETS ARE:
GMFC must
1)QUALIFY FOR A CAF TOURNAMENT,
2)REACH AT LEAST THE SEMIS OF ALL CECAFA WE PARTICIPATE IN,
3)REACH AT LEAST THE GROUP STAGES/ 3RD ROUND OF ALL CAF TOURNAMENTS WE PARTICIPATE IN,
HAVE A RECALL CLAUSE FOR NON PERFORMANCE.
THAT MEANS ASPIRANTS MANIFESTOS ARE JUST THEIR DIFFERENT WAYS OF ACHIEVING THE TARGETS IF BUILDING A STADIUM AND APARTMENTS WILL HELP YOU SO BE IT IF FOCUSING ON QUALITY PLAYERS AND COACHES WILL HELP YOU SO BE IT.
WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE I CAN’T AGREE MORE @D.O
Am not duped, and my friend, a new constitution with “checks and balances that streamline daily operations” DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN.
What am saying is:
LET ASPIRANTS COMMIT TO THEIR PLEDGES BY SIGNING YEARLY PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS.
But I still ask on what basis do you elect a GM official and most importantly the Chairman for that matter.
Of course AR will want nothing to do with manifestos this time because he has used it twice with lofty promises of building a stadium and apartments.
My point is and has been very simple:
FOOTBALL IS ABOUT WINNING TITLES.
MEMBERS MUST HAVE OUR MINIMUM YEARLY CONDITIONS BEING:
GMFC must
1)QUALIFY FOR A CAF TOURNAMENT,
2)REACH AT LEAST THE SEMIS OF ALL CECAFA WE PARTICIPATE IN,
3)REACH AT LEAST THE GROUP STAGES/ 3RD ROUND OF ALL CAF TOURNAMENTS WE PARTICIPATE IN,
HAVE A RECALL CLAUSE FOR NON PERFORMANCE. THAT WAY CHAIR CAN BE AR,CHRIS,DAN BECAUSE AT THE YEAR END THERE WILL BE A EVULATION.
PROMISES WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
Now here is the catch unless you can deliver these three, why would you want to be elected!
Then if you are committed to deliver the above three, checks, balances and streamlined operations will be key.
Some bloggers hea were very skeptical of NM election as KFF chair,bt he is proving guys wrong.My thinking is that AR had all the tym space to make GM great or at least lay structures without waiting for sports act.My problem with AR he runs GM like a sole proprietor mpaka he’s made the likes of Dan musymo think that GM is doomed without him simply because he kind of rescued the team in difficult tyms.Many of the projects were reluctantly initiated after a considerable pressure frm fans.Accountability has been a problem with the current officials.We nid a chair who is passionate abt the club,willingly engages the fans and promotes club activities by always talking abt them at any given opportunity since we dnt have mkting team.Come to think of it u will rarely see the chair in media being interviewed abt the club.This “siri Kali” style of leadership is outdated.B4 AR became chairman .what tangible thing did he do that guys are asking of the aspirants? .