{"id":2467,"date":"2013-05-21T02:18:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T02:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2013-05-21T02:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T02:19:14","slug":"bwana-criminals-posing-as-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/bwana-criminals-posing-as-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bwana : Criminals posing as fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/fans13-vfc.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p><b><b>On Saturday 18 May 2013, several Gor Mahia fans were<\/b> attacked on their way to town around the Muthurwa Market soon after a tie between <i>K\u2019ogalo<\/i> and Nairobi City Stars \u00a0at the City Stadium that ended 0-0.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As the story goes, an initial set of fans provoked hawkers around the market who then ganged up and attacked other fans streaking from the City Stadium into town, the targeted being those with Gor Mahia jerseys.<\/p>\n<p><b>Immediacy <\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the incidents, Gor Mahia Secretary General George Bwana commented on the unfortunate acts soon after the Club\u2019s Vice Chair Faiz Ochieng released a statement on the same.<\/p>\n<p>Keen Gor Mahia followers, through comments after Bwana and Ochieng&#8217;s respective postings, have accused both officials of being in denial that some of their fans are indeed hooligans and looters and their acts on Saturday being the root cause of the Muthurwa chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Bwana still stands his ground on his comments and from his own analysis reiterates that some criminals purport to be Gor Mahia fans, branded in the team jerseys, and is calling on the Police to arrest them with immediacy when they cause such chaos.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gor Mahia numbers and wave<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-Any fan who loots and causes chaos in the streets is a criminal and should be dealt with by the full force of the law, he started off to <i>futaa.com<\/i><\/p>\n<p>-Many people have taken advantage of the Gor Mahia numbers and wave, some put on Gor Mahia jerseys but they are criminals. These are people that we urge the security forces to deal with outright there and then when they cause such trouble<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that call, he went on to clarify the footprint of the club and jurisdiction when it comes to managing its fan base<\/p>\n<p><b>Misdeed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-Our mandate as a club ends at the Stadium and that is why I call upon the Police to step up their role and protect road users and fans after games<\/p>\n<p>-We do not want to see the real Gor fan affected because of the misdeed of a few that have ill motives, he added<\/p>\n<p>During the Muthurwa fracas on Saturday, Gor Mahia\u2019s team bus was stoned, but as confirmed by Bwana earlier, all the five players on board escaped unhurt.<\/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\/bwana-criminals-posing-as-fans\/\"\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 futaa.com On Saturday 18 May 2013, several Gor Mahia fans were attacked on their way to town around<\/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-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","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=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}