{"id":15194,"date":"2019-09-20T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T11:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15194"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T11:15:45","slug":"gor-mahia-and-fkf-disagree-over-philemon-otieno-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-and-fkf-disagree-over-philemon-otieno-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia and FKF disagree over Philemon Otieno treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/philemon-stars.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The career of Gor Mahia defender Philemon Otieno who sustained a career threatening injury while playing for Harambee stars is in limbo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Record Kenyan Premier League (KPL) champions Gor Mahia and \nFootball Kenya Federation (FKF) are locked in a tussle over the \ntreatment of Philemon Otieno who was injured while on national team \nduty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otieno, who emerged as the first choice right \nback for both club and country last season, picked a knee injury during \nthe return leg of the first round 2020 African Nations Championship \n(Chan) qualifier pitting Harambee Stars against Taifa Stars at Kasarani \nlast month. Otieno was replaced in the first half as Kenya lost 4-1 on \npost-match penalties following a barren draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports \nindicate that FKF had planned to airlift the player for surgery in \nFrance few days after the match but that has not happened to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor\n Mahia CEO Lordvick Aduda has accused the federation of neglecting their\n player rendering him unavailable for club assignments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\n wrote a letter to FKF on September 4 on the state of Philemon&#8217;s injury \nand they have never bothered to answer. The player needs to be treated \nurgently because he is suffering and is in pain. They\n wrote to us when they needed the player for national assignment but now\n they have ignored us and deserted him yet it is their responsibility to\n meet his medical cost,\u201d an aggrieved Aduda told Nation Sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aduda  dismissed claims that Otieno has been released by the club reiterating  that he is still contracted to Gor Mahia until January 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nobody has terminated Philemon\u2019s contract, we only severed it \nfor some time and gave his jersey number to another player. He is still \nour player. What is surprising is that when Brian Mandela got injured in\n Harambee Stars camp in France, FKF paid for his treatment and didn\u2019t \nrefer him to his club in South Africa. Why is that not happening in \nPhilemon&#8217;s situation?,\u201d posed Aduda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, acting \nFKF CEO Barry Otieno insists that it&#8217;s not the prerogative of national \nteam players to be treated by the federation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere \nis no law that say the federation should cater for medicals expenses of a\n player injured while playing for the national team We also don\u2019t have \ncomprehensive insurance cover for players in the national team, we only \ngive them covers when traveling out of the country for matches,\u201d said \nOtieno who urged Gor Mahia to carry their own cross. &#8220;Philemon is a Gor \nMahia player and the club should help him get treatment. As at now, the \nfederation has no money but the situation would have been different if \nfinances were available,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surgery, to reconstruct complete tear of Otieno&#8217;s anterior cruciate ligament, is estimated to cost Sh500,000. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-and-fkf-disagree-over-philemon-otieno-treatment\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The career of Gor Mahia defender Philemon Otieno who sustained a career threatening injury while playing for Harambee stars is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[581],"class_list":["post-15194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-philemon-otieno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15196,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions\/15196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}