{"id":178,"date":"2011-08-01T02:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T02:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=178"},"modified":"2011-08-01T02:50:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T02:50:42","slug":"money-raised-at-gor-mahia-congo-match-dissapears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/money-raised-at-gor-mahia-congo-match-dissapears\/","title":{"rendered":"Money raised at Gor Mahia-Congo match dissapears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7000 fans attended the encounter pitting Congo United and Gor Mahia on Wednesday,  yet Congo as the home team went home with a paltry 43,500 shillings as gate collection. The Mombasa municipal council and FKL were in charge of the gate charges and announced that only 203,000 out of a possible 1million shilling was realized.<\/p>\n<p>Congo also claimed Mombasa Council agents who manned the gates during the  Congo\/Gor Mahia FKL Cup match \u201cfleeced\u201d the club of money, ending up receiving a  paltry Sh43,000 from a well attended match.<\/p>\n<p>Even for lowly attended matches, Congo makes Sh160,000 to Sh300,000 at  Mbaraki. In a record breaking match, like against crowd-pullers Gor Mahia, Congo  made over Sh700,000 at Mbaraki.<\/p>\n<p>The club said that over 7,000 fans attend their FKL Cup match, higher than  all their previous matches at Mbaraki, but gate-keepers announced a taking of  only Sh203,000. Congo said they anticipated over Sh1 million to be collected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were cheated by council officials. How can soccer develop when we are  still engaged in corruption,\u201d asked Cong United vice-chairman Evans Mzungu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a poor community club, working hard but, apparently, for other  people, who have no stake in football, to feed off our sweat in broad daylight.  That was an unfortunate situation and as Congo United we will not play our  matches at the stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This situation mirrors what happened in July of 2000 when Kenya faced Swaziland at the very same Mombasa municipal stadium. In that occasion, close to Ksh 1 milllion dissapeared and has never been recovered.<\/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\/money-raised-at-gor-mahia-congo-match-dissapears\/\"\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>7000 fans attended the encounter pitting Congo United and Gor Mahia on Wednesday, yet Congo as the home team went<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}