AFC Leopards Players Pull A Laura Oyier In Mombasa…

Kenyan football is terribly in trouble after financial woes hit clubs recently. The biggest victim is AFC Leopards who rely on well wishers to travel to different match venues to play.

The latest incident, a clear indication of embezzlement of funds that has scared away sponsors, is when AFC leopards players were detained in a Mombasa Hotel for failing to pay bills.

After their match with Bandari FC in which they won 2-1, the players pitched camp in Jambo Village Hotel in Changamwe but could not pay bills that accumulated to KES 170,000.

The hotel detained them and it required the intervention of former premier Raila Odinga and Mombasa governor Hassan Joho who donated 100,000 each to clear the bills before the players could be released.

AFC Chairman George Aladwa confirmed the detention and said that they had run out of funds to pay the bills and were planning to do so on Tuesday.