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Feuding Gor officials should shut up and work as a team or ship out
What you need to know:
- Gor Mahia will not succeed by the number of likes or comments an official gets from his or her Facebook page. We need tranquillity and soberness at the club management.
- If this cannot happen, then members need to recall the office, change the constitution and have a lean executive that will speak with one voice.
Over the last week we have witnessed a serious altercation between two officials of the club. It has reached a level where the club chairman has threatened to sue the organizing secretary for defamation.
And I ask myself, why are we washing our dirty linen in public?
While it is understandable to have differing opinion at a club like Gor Mahia where we have a dozen officials in the executive committee, it is unbecoming for the officials to extend their differences and fights to the public gallery.
When the club members lined up to vote for the current executive, there was excitement all over with each one of us believing we had placed officials who will turn around the club and make it a professional outfit.
The current developments are proving us all wrong. How we (members) yearn for an office that will realize Gor Mahia is a football club and not a boxing ring for officials to exchange blows.
How we members yearn to see Gor Mahia challenge the likes of TP Mazembe, Esperance, Kaizer Chiefs ….name them in terms of how the clubs are run.
It is a shame that while the members have a good vision for the club, the same is not shared by officials whose daily debate is who has pocketed gate collection or transfer money for a certain player. Shame.
When they were campaigning for office, each of the officials made a promise to turn around the club. They were all reading from the same script whose main topic was to professionalize the club.
That script has totally changed one year down the line. In any organization, there are basic rules and guidelines on how the managers, or in Gor Mahia’s case, the executive is supposed to operate.
There is a code of conduct on what to and what not to place on social media. This seems not to be applying at Gor Mahia.
Some very confidential information about the club have been shared on social media, officials have attacked each other calling each other names on social media in the process shaming the club.
Gor Mahia will not succeed by the number of likes or comments an official gets from his or her Facebook page. We need tranquillity and soberness at the club management.
If this cannot happen, then members need to recall the office, change the constitution and have a lean executive that will speak with one voice.
