{"id":4399,"date":"2014-04-18T02:56:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T02:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2014-04-20T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T04:03:07","slug":"fans-called-for-transparency-will-the-club-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/fans-called-for-transparency-will-the-club-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans called for transparency. Will the club listen ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/fans13-vfc3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exactly one week ago, Gor Mahia officials announced that due to the reluctance of corporate sponsors to come on board as sponsors, they were embarking on a major member recruitment and fund raising drive. EC member David Kiilo announced that the club is targeting at least one million members who will be expected to pay Sh100 each. Not much has been heard from the club since then.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the die hard fans are willing to dig into their pockets to support the club they support. However many fans in the blogosphere have demanded\u00a0 measures of transparency and accountability be put in place. Almost 50% of fans responded that they wanted to see financial transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, transparency has never been a strong suit for this club. Things were much worse in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Previous chairman Erastus Okul once remarked that the fans had no business inquiring about the inner goings-on at the club. Ambrose Rachier may be one of the best chairmen in the history of club football in Kenya. But even he has not assuaged the concerns of those fans who demand accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Financial transparency can be enhanced for example by publishing the club&#8217;s accounts and having the\u00a0 accounts audited on a regular basis by reputable accounting firm such as KPMG.<\/p>\n<p>Gate collections is another area where the club must assuage the skepticism of fans. The recent match pitting Gor Mahia and Bandari raised Ksh 1,049,000 at the gates. Given that City stadium is far larger than Mombasa Municipal stadium and more Gor Mahia fans attend matches at City than those who travel to Mombasa the gate collections for home games should always be much higher than that number.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2002, yours truly approached Gor Mahia officials offering to send money every month and also recruit other fans to do the same. We had an agreement with the officials at the time that they would put in place real measures to enhance accountability. But after I sent the first money for the 1st month I contacted him about the promise he made. But he just kept insisting that we send the money.<\/p>\n<p>It is a given that should Gor Mahia put in place the measures need to enhance transparency, the club could raise significant amounts of money. In a way its a good thing that Tuzo pulled out. It means that club&#8217;s officials must now think out of the box and find other ways to raise funds. Will they ? They better. 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