AFC Leopards players boycott training
What you need to know:
- A separate contractual stand off between the club’s former coach Pieter de Jongh and the management has attracted the attention of the Netherlands Embassy in Nairobi and the KPL’s Independent Disciplinary and Complaints Committee (IDCC).
- De Jongh, was fired by the club in January, and is now demanding Sh1.5 million in unpaid dues. The Dutchman continues to reside in an apartment in Nairobi that is attracting Sh100,000 a month in rent billed to AFC Leopards.
Trouble at AFC Leopards has reached crises level. The club’s first team hasn’t trained since Monday with the players now threatening not to honour their weekend’s league fixture against Tusker unless all their owed salaries, allowances and match winning bonuses are paid.
“We are fed up and not returning to the pitch unless the management spells out the way forward in regard to paying our dues,” a senior player in the team who requested not to be named for fear of reprisal told Nation Sport.
A separate contractual stand off between the club’s former coach Pieter de Jongh and the management has attracted the attention of the Netherlands Embassy in Nairobi and the KPL’s Independent Disciplinary and Complaints Committee (IDCC).
De Jongh, was fired by the club in January, and is now demanding Sh1.5 million in unpaid dues. The Dutchman continues to reside in an apartment in Nairobi that is attracting Sh100,000 a month in rent billed to AFC Leopards.
“I have been approached by someone at the Embassy. The instructions are we should clear the man’s dues as soon as we can,” Leopard’s organising secretary Timothy Lilumbi said.
