Trouble at Muthurwa
Courtesy of michezoafrika.com
Gor Mahia’s barren draw against City Stars on Saturday at City Stadium ended peacefully but hell broke loose as hundreds of fans who were headed back to town were attacked by hawkers from Muthurwa market.
Eye witnesses told michezoafrika that while passing Muthurwa on Landhies road, several hawkers decided to pounce on the fans who were singing in praise of K’Ogalo.
The team bus with several players was also not spared but luckily the players escaped unhurt.
Several Gor fans sustained bruises and cuts while innocent passengers using the route were also caught in the battle. It did not matter the mode of transport as even those inside vehicles were being pulled out by the hawkers.
One pedestrian caught up between said: “I am not a fan of Gor Mahia and I did not have any business with the hawkers but I got caught in the barbaric act. A stone aimed at a fan hit me but luckily i was not hurt that much. Some Matatus had their windows smashed”
Several Gor fans sustained bruises and cuts while innocent passengers using the route were also caught in the battle.
A hawker who watched the battles on the side said: “Sisi ni watu wenye amani lakini hawa watu wa Gor wametuzoea.Wanafunga barabara na kuharibu mali yetu ovyo ovyo.Kama ni mpira washerekee kwa heshima lakini sio kuleta shida hapa kila wakati .[We are peaceful people but these Gor Mahia fans are disrespecting us.They block the roads and destroy our wares.They can celebrate in decorum but desist from creating trouble”
With three matches at hand, Gor Mahia are only four points adrift of leaders Sofapaka in the premier league log.
good lesson. unfortunate for the innocent but remember the saying of one bad apple. as i have said before there are gor fans who go to the stadium with total intention of causing chaos so as to loot. last year this was said that it was of the impending elections and that someone was transporting goons after gor matches to turnish SOMEONES name. i have attended and studied several situations and came to the conclusion this is done by a group of rowdy fans who carry on with this trend up into the city centre. the so called victory laps are never innocent as they try to look. watchout when buying tickets around the stadium, walking along uhuru highway after a match and along moi and tom mboya streets, when matches are played at nyayo. are they gor fans – yes, but unlike the FAN these guys thrive on chaos, a disrupted match means they will end up with something on their pockets. it’s a trend that has quickly gained notoriety probably coz of the tendency of the EC coming out to defend themselves and basically not condeming or trying to educate such characters. so yesterday the stoned the gor bus, maybe the EC is waiting for a gor player to die. and ADMIN trying to make the hawkers look as the guilty party is exactly the kind of attitude that has encouraged such crooks. the hawkers did not just decide to attack gor fans as u put it.
I support the Hawkers. From my days in Primary School, Gor fans have harrased Hawkers especially hapo machakos bus station mpaka marikiti market after games at City Sradium. It is time they get their own medicine.
@Ingo two wrongs do not make a right. There are thousands of gor fans who would not even hurt a fly. When Thika Utd cost us the tittle last year a good number did nothing but cried and sobbed all the way to their homes but a small fraction of the fans who thrive on chaos created the chaotic environment. Personally I have been assualted by Ingwe fans coming from a game in Thika along the highway but I didn’t condemn all Ingwe fans. The truth is that we have rotten potatoes in bot clubs and the sooner we get ris of them the better. I was disgusted when the Gor EC tried to appoerion blame on the fiasco. Can they at one time sit with the fans at Russia and see what happens there. They will change their mind about defending the goons.
I have always said that let’s get rid of the political songs and placards. After all most fans have either moved on or are apolitical.
Antagonising the sponsor when we know that we cannot match what they give us is in bad taste.
I believe we are also scaring away fans who want to use the stadium as a recreation centre as well as stiffling the sale of our merchandise.
I believe the EC will do something about this just like the Ingwe ‘Destroyer’ was singled out and not play innocent to the gallery
Dan
I sincerely appreciate your sober comments with regard to this ssue. However, let me be quick to point out that it has been the hawkers who have been on the receiving end for decades and decades and nothing has been done by both the Gor manamagement and the police. Please remember that this is the sole income source for most of these hawkers. Rent hapo, school fees ya watoto hapo, uniforms hapo….so when gor fans steal and destroy the hawkers livelyhood for years and years, what do you expect? even in South Africa the blacks got tired of aperthied and fought back! only then did they get independence.
Yeah this was going to happen one day, and the day was Saturday.Not yet, the big one will still come, people will be killed one day.The way some “fans” behave is just too bad to be associated with the name of Gor Mahia, some have completely different agenda on every match day.I ask when shall we be civilised and respect every ones rights to do what they are doing? Why all the barbarism after every match?
But again this has been happenning for many years and police ought to be prepared for this everyday, without appearing to be asleep. Why not provide security along this route minutes before the end of the games? There will one day be massacre here if this is let to continue.
Mr Ingo,the pan should not call the kettle black, they are both black. Ingwe fans cannot be spared blame as well, so lets just be objective and fair on this; today its ours, tomorrow it might be yours.
Nef Nef Nef, did the police arrest anyone? For 2 years have the police arrested anyone?. Thugs are simply using the Gor brand to commit crime, while the police sit back. But when people attack our bus and players then we peace loving die hard Gor fans will simply give them presidential escort and protect our beloved K’galo at all costs.
Executive Community wake up and protect Gor property and players.
Back to the game, its now obvious that Coach Logarusic has nothing special to offer to enable K’galo be head and shoulders above the other teams, this despite being paid head and shoulders above other coaches.
My advise, as always, to him is to recruit 2 talented attacking midfielders (from outside the country) if we are to wrap up the title chase with games to spare.
To fans reduce the size of the EC to a maximum of 5 officials in the upcoming elections.
To the new EC revamp the club, especially TB to make K’galo a regional, then continental soccer force in 2 years.
Mr Loga should change the tacs, 1 the pace is so low 2 holding balls 3 blind passes 4 counter attack 5 striking area 6 mid is dead do somethin about it.
WHO CAN REDEEM K’OGALO?
Before even my ink dried when i penned a very strongly worded post on the unbecoming behaviour of some our fans, Gor Mahia is once again on the news for bad reasons. This time round, it was Gor Mahia
fans who were on the receiving end.
When something is reported so many times, it becomes normal and does not raise eyebrows.
I don’t know how many lives will be lost or amount of property lost before this henious acts are abolished. I have never believed at any moment that GM is a brand. I have not minced my words to call the word sirkal, a creation of goons. I have boldy and oftenly stated that both AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia clubs are dogged by innocent blood. Perhaps we need a spiritual interpretation.
It’s only a matter of time before our main shirt sponsor drop a bombshell which might not be good music for genuine football lovers.
I submit to you once again that crime does not pay and if it does as it seem now, you’ll one day pay with your own life or that of your kin.
Bro Pareiyo, you re spot on.
Very soon it will be dangerous and life threatening to don a K’ogalo shirt.
Let no one be cheated that fans can fight back, it’ll turn more ugly and bloody!
I beg to ask, who will really make the sense agreeable and accommodating to these people who are bent on infringing others’ rights? The latest direction is too frightening.
Admin, the GM fans are on the wrong, a part of the fans may not even be aware that hawkers are continuously robed of their wares and harassed, but may end up dying or hurt. So sad.
The question is why no arrests and prosecution BY THE POLICE for A WHOLE TWO YEARS? They can’t be overstretched in the city, maybe in Bungoma & Tana River but the capital city, NO!NO!
I count 4 police stations around Tokowanda 1.Kamukunji,2.Shauri Moyo,3.Muthuruwa,4.Central
Nyayo has 2 industrial Area, and Nyayo itself.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that thugs (not fans) are simply donning K’galo jerseys to carry out crime.
Gor Mahia and AFC officials also engage 150-300 USELESS security stewards per match as a scheme to siphon club funds.
If donning a K’galo jersey becomes a risk then merchandising( read club revenue) will be lost not. This matter has mutated into something very ugly. Gor Mahia the club is just a scapegoat.
Very soon, something will just give in!
There will one day be massacre if this is let to continue, and it will be very unfortunate if this comes to pass.It will be even more painfull because it would be something that would have been avoided.
As @dinga puts it,’The hawkers, did not just decide to attack gor fans’, they had been pushed to the wall.And now with talks of a ‘revenge attack’, the worst, as @ja thur gi ji puts it, is yet to come!
It’s unfortunate that the team bus was also stoned, and anybody in a green gor mahia jersey was being beaten up! That’s how bad things have become!
Am informed that the first group of supporters which is usually a massive group, is what caused havoc, and that when the hawkers regrouped and armed themselves, the hooligans had already passed by, and that it’s the second group(those who usually, walk in small groups of threes and fours) who bore the brunt of the irate hawkers and of course our team bus.
Dan, antagonising our sponsors is not only in bad taste, I find it being plain stupidity and the height of ignorance, yet we want to attract the best players.This hooliganism thing has so many negative repercussions some of which affect match results directly.
Gor mahia officials should come out and openly condemn these hooligans as well as the ‘hooligan like’ pages in the social media which perpetuate hooliganism/tribalism in the name of supportig gor mahia . Otherwise things have taken a very bad turn, and soon lives, many lives will be lost . We’ve all seen that coming, havent we?
Gentlemen on sato i saw what an never saw happening,i came late n decided to sit at the teraces coz i said i cant pay 500 and am just going to see the second half of the game,when i was just getting in there are group of people who they dont get in n they r just direct at the entrence,they harass u wakikudanganya ati wanakupatia escort but wanaingiza mikono yao kwa mifuko zako wakikupora,the moment u get inside they r done with u,me i lost my phone that i bought for 19k at that gate hata nika regret why i went there hata ningelipa tu 500 and be safe,my advice is that lets try and avoid this crowd after the game and u can even carry with u another shirt that u can put on after game because right now its risky wearing Kogalo jerssy in town,it has become that bad so plz 4 ur family dont try moving with crowd about 70% are thugs just ready to coause chaos so that they can reap,there is nothing we can do even if we say EC what can they do? nothing coz these pple do this nonesense after the game,the police must act and it must be now so that we can save this great club from going to the dogs,this thing of us going to the Tom Mboya monument must also stop,n i suggest the police must be stationed there always to stop this useless fellows mascarading as funs but are just thugs,do u knw when we went to nakuru last season what brought the problem? mtu alikojolea mboga ya mtu ati yeye ni sirkal just imagine nw u just wonder how urinating on my mboga has to do with suppoting the team,let all of us join hands to correct this mess bfore its late,wacha hawa funs wa efusi who are making useless comments here know that hata efusi is just the same muwache ujinga this is serious thing n u guyz are making jokes out of it,this stipid comment take them to ur blogg not here,here we want solutions and not kukaa nikama mnatuenjoy lets join hand good pple.
I think of late the fans have behaved quite well, if the fans celebrating peacefully on their way home are attacked then why should people complain when scuffles erupt during a mach. They always associate the fans with stone throwing yet they are now attacked with the same arsenal. Everyone must change for the benefit of football in this country.