{"id":2461,"date":"2013-05-19T05:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T05:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2013-05-19T05:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T05:51:42","slug":"trouble-at-muthurwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/trouble-at-muthurwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble at Muthurwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/fans-sing13b.jpg\" width=\"442\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of michezoafrika.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019Ogalo.<\/p>\n<p>The team bus with several players was also not spared but luckily the players escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>One pedestrian caught up between said: &#8220;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&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several Gor fans sustained bruises and cuts while innocent passengers using the route were also caught in the battle.<\/p>\n<p>A hawker who watched the battles on the side said: &#8220;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\u201d<br \/>\nWith three matches at hand, Gor Mahia are only four points adrift of leaders Sofapaka in the premier league log.<\/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\/trouble-at-muthurwa\/\"\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>Courtesy of michezoafrika.com Gor Mahia&#8217;s barren draw against City Stars on Saturday at City Stadium ended peacefully but hell broke<\/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-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}