{"id":4534,"date":"2014-05-08T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2014-05-08T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:32:54","slug":"interview-with-sec-gen-chris-omondi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/interview-with-sec-gen-chris-omondi\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Sec Gen Chris Omondi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4Qeu--xnTM?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"443\" height=\"249\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Chris Omondi discusses the club&#8217;s search for sponsorship, noting that the club has been unable to find sponsorship due to the fact that the Tuzo sponsorship ended in the middle of the financial cycle of most companies and thus could not be budgeted for by the companies. He also admits that hooliganism played a role in making it difficult for the club to realize sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>According to Omondi, the KRA has not contacted the club directly but instead contacted Tuzo and the KPL. Nevertheless the club has sent overtures to KRA to discuss the high amount (Ksh 118 million).<\/p>\n<p>Players have not received their March salaries. He thanks the players for maintaining their form despite not being paid in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>The paybill number is a short term solution to meet the club&#8217;s operational budget especially salaries and travel expenses. .<\/p>\n<p>He denies that there are any officials who are &#8220;eating&#8221;.<\/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\/interview-with-sec-gen-chris-omondi\/\"\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>In this interview, Chris Omondi discusses the club&#8217;s search for sponsorship, noting that the club has been unable to find<\/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":[1,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}