{"id":10636,"date":"2018-04-17T02:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2018-04-17T02:31:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:31:02","slug":"gor-mahia-unable-to-secure-visas-and-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-unable-to-secure-visas-and-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia unable to secure Visas and Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ambrose Rachier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of Monday April 16, with two days left before the match against Supersport, Gor Mahia have yet to secure travel Visas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in problems because South African embassy is insisting that we applied for the visas late. They have a strict rule that a visa to their country must take five working days and we applied for it with only four days to go.\u00a0 We hope the Kenyan government will step in and help us secure the same.\u201d said a club official to goal.com<\/p>\n

Chairman Ambrose Rachier has admitted that the club is in dire straits<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last two trips we have gone out, the government has been providing tickets for us. Up to now, they are yet to give us anything. If by tomorrow (Tuesday) we don\u2019t have tickets, then I don\u2019t see us travelling not unless a well wisher comes out. We don\u2019t have money as a club,\u201d Gor chairman Ambrose Rachier told Capital Sport.<\/p>\n

On Visas Rachier says the team applied for their visas last Tuesday and was booked for interviews on Wednesday, the same day they were facing Wazito FC in a league fixture in Machakos. They went for the interviews on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t boycott the match in Machakos and we went on Thursday. The embassy has insisted that they will start counting the five days from Thursday. So we wait and see, hopefully they will be considerate and we can get the visas tomorrow and travel at night,\u201d Rachier further explained.<\/p>\n

The embassy also made it difficult to secure travel documents for the foreign players.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe embassy required us to provide one-year work permits but immigration here only gives six month work permits. So we don\u2019t know how that will go down with them. We have explained and so we wait. It is a very precarious situation for the club,\u201d Rachier said to Capital Sports.<\/p>\n

The South African embassy makes travel to South Africa difficult. The Kenya women’s football team once had to camp at the embassy in protest until they were given visas.<\/p>\n

Club secretary Ben Omondi also admitted dire straits on his social media pages.<\/p>\n

“We are in bad shape making it hard for the team to fly to South Africa for the Caf- Confederation return leg match planned for 18th , April 2018. We have done all within our means to get travel documentations right in good time but things are not working as scheduled thus our travel to Pretoria is postponed.” said Omondi<\/p>\n

Traveling late could doom Gor Mahia’s chances. In 2015, the Kenya U23 arrived on Botswana mere hours before their match against their Botswanan counterparts. They lost 0-3 after conceding three late goals due to travel fatigue.<\/p>\n

Nyangi blames Aduda<\/h2>\n

And club organizing secretary Judith Nyangi is laying the blame squarely on the shoulders of CEO Omondi Aduda.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in bad shape making it hard for the team to fly to South Africa for the Caf Confederation Cup return leg planned for April 18, 2018. \u201cWe have done all within our means to get all travel documentations right in good time but things are not working as scheduled thus our travel to Pretoria is postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But speaking separately, Nyangi revealed that she was kept at bay in the process of securing visas by Aduda, who was the mastermind of all the activities regarding the team travel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what is happening, all these mess I am hearing them from the media. I was not involved in planning and I decided to keep calm after he (Aduda) refused to pick my calls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nyangi noted that Gor Mahia have had a long time to plan for this trip so no excuses are cceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to say it is him, if not who else? It was known early enough since Gor Mahia left Tunisia that we would face SuperSport United, an official should have begun the work as early as possible. So personally I cannot blame the South African embassy, SA is like Europe and there are no short cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aduda was fired from the club in February of 2015 after he was accused by the club of unlawfully representing the interests of the club to the federation as pertains to the clubs position in the ongoing FKF \u2013 KPL stand-off whereas the club is in support of the KPL.<\/p>\n

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