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Fresh off the plane from the disastrous Morocco campaign where Gor Mahia played pathetically to crash out of the continental Caf Confederation Cup, a livid Ambrose Rachier cried blue murder on some officials he claimed were rocking the boat from within.
The chairman who was in a fighting mood promised to take the battle right to the fifth columnists’ doorstep adding that he would not run a club with officials pulling in different directions.
This warning earning the chairman plaudits from pundits and diehard lovers of the club from all corners of the globe. However, not much seems to be happening from that front and it seems the chairman was all hat and no cattle.
Mine is a gentle reminder to my friend Bwana Rachier that we are waiting for the long overdue cracking of the whip.
Without this, the club runs the risk of turning into a walk-in theatre where idlers of all shapes and sizes waltz in, do whatever they please and walk away, smug in the thought that their impunity will never be questioned.
For starters, sir, get to the bottom of the fiasco that was travel arrangements for the Morocco campaign.
I am not buying the idea that the Ministry of Sports was solely responsible for the cavalier treatment of our players taking part in that campaign.
The ministry might be having its own shortcomings but on this one I am standing with the minister Ambassador Amina Mohamed.
I have it on the authority of none other than her media adviser that the good lady has the best interest of local football - Gor Mahia included - at heart.
On that note, I want to appeal to the club to use the window of opportunity afforded by the changes in the ministry to build better working relations with the new minister.
This is one person I have watched first hand as she handled high level tasks as deputy executive director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, now UNE) and I am confident that she can handle fruitful deliberations with chairman Rachier for the betterment of our club.
Why am I insisting on this? By the look of how things are panning out in the premier league, chances are very high that we will be back on the continental trail next year and this means the boys will be travelling to different capitals of the continent in our search of glory and gold.
Ambassador Amina having been minister for foreign affairs must have valuable contacts in most of these countries. We must leverage on these contacts too.
Talking of the league, I am with coach Hassan Oktay who believes that there are forces out to frustrate Gor Mahia’s march towards the penultimate match.
My advice to such miscreants? Go ahead and try as much as possible to frustrate Gor. What we know is that we are winning this league whether you like it or not. After all we are Gor Mahia. And we are unbwogable.
