{"id":8998,"date":"2016-11-03T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2016-11-03T03:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:02:40","slug":"aspirants-accuse-rachier-of-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/aspirants-accuse-rachier-of-rigging\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspirants accuse Rachier of rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/ifeo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"642\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aspirants for various positions at the December 11 club elections have accused Chairman Ambrose Rachier of creating barriers to entry to ensure that he is re-elected<\/p>\n<p>According to Citizen Sports, the incumbent Executive Committee hired overseas based IFEOS to carry out the registration and aspirants claim the firm has been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cThe spirit of justice and fairness has been defeated by the interference from the Executive Committee led by Rachier. How will IFEOS operate independently yet their selection was done in secret?\u201d Dan Oketch an aspirant for the Chairmanship asked.<\/p>\n<p>The aspirants also accused the current office bearers of violating the club Constitution by hiking the registration fee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat were the criteria behind raising it from the Ksh100 to 500? Who ratified this increase, given the club has not held an Annual General Meeting for two years? We want to know the system put in place, if any, to ensure the so called online registration is not abused and only credible Gor fans participate in the process,\u201d continued Oketch.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Omondi, also an aspirant for the Chairmanship, accused the club of not taking steps taken to create awareness and educate \u00a0fans on the new online registration warning\u00a0the more stakeholders are locked out of the exercise, the election will be compromised and defeat its purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand the office to engage aspirants and members in the appointment of an independent Electoral Board which must be involved right from voter registration to election in consultation with all stakeholders,\u201d said Omondi to Citizen sports.<\/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\/aspirants-accuse-rachier-of-rigging\/\"\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>Aspirants for various positions at the December 11 club elections have accused Chairman Ambrose Rachier of creating barriers to entry<\/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":[451],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","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=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}