Nairobi — Avid gamers, who had their passports confiscated by the Italian Embassy and confronted doc forgery accusations by the Soccer Kenya Federation (FKF) contain opened on the saga that left severe stains on their reputations.
The quartet of; Rooney Onyango, Musa Masika, Shariff Majabe and Ben Stanley Omondi had been accused of using a forged clearance letter from FKF to obtain visas from the Italian Embassy.
The four had secured a trial opportunity with US Castrovillari Calcio but had been denied visas by the Embassy after it emerged that one of the documents submitted became spurious.
According to FKF, the Embassy, whereas conducting its due diligence, contacted the physique in a uncover to save whether or no longer the clearance letter, which bore the Accepted Secretary’s signature, became legit.
It emerged that FKF had no longer issued the letter to the four compelling the Embassy to maintain their passports pending investigations together with Kandanda Home.
Avid gamers Claim Innocence
The rigmarole compelled FKF to discipline a, rather easy, assertion that threw the four avid gamers below the bus as they had been indicted for presenting a forged doc to the Embassy via the support of an agent basically basically based in a foreign nation.
Nonetheless, the avid gamers maintain that they are innocent and can no longer be condemned unheard at the same time as football stakeholders continue to support the promised FKF’s disciplinary action against the agent.
Majabe, one of the avid gamers involved, revealed that the agent, who has handiest been often known as Masika, gave the avid gamers the letter, which became flagged by the Embassy.
The versatile participant, who secured his first Harambee Stars call-up a diminutive bit over a week in the past, talked about he had labored with the agent for a in reality lengthy time such that they might per chance well perhaps not doubt him to forge the clearance letter.
“I had worked with him for years and I had no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the letter. Never did I imagine that it could be a fake letter as the agent is well known at FKF. We only realized it was fake when the Embassy contacted us,” he told SportsBoom.com.
Majabe became backed by Ben Stanley, who talked about the remaining of the documents submitted to the Embassy had been in expose accurate from the FKF letter.
The midfielder, who has since joined Kakamega Homeboyz, talked about it wasn’t their fault to put up a forged letter to the Embassy as they’d depended on their agent to play his characteristic.
“The only mistake we made was to let our agent do everything for us. We ought to have counter-checked before walking into the Embassy,” the historic Migori Formative years distinguished individual commented.
What Italian Embassy Told the Avid gamers
The 2 avid gamers revealed that the Embassy released their passports unconditionally but offered suggestion earlier than surrendering the documents.
They disclosed that the Embassy became willing to grant them passage to Rome upon presenting a legitimate letter from FKF.
Nonetheless, time became no longer on their side as their golf equipment compelled them to resume ahead of the begin of the 2024-2025 season and diversified continental assignments.
Lessons Learnt from Foiled Transfer
The duo, who contain since assign behind the events of last month, train the classes picked from the saga left them wiser.
Majabe, who became an unused exchange in the Stars’ opening match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Countries qualifier against Zimbabwe, talked about, in the lengthy urge, he will continuously scrutinize every doc to sustain away from such an embarrassing incidence.
“I will still work with the agent since that was not the first transfer business we were conducting or interaction. However, I will always play especially in the verification process,” talked about the Bandari defender who furthermore plays as a defensive midfielder.
Ben Stanley on the diversified hand talked about the transfer served as a reminder of how swiftly things can drag south if a participant is no longer eager on the puny puny print.
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“Next time, I will be involved in everything just to avoid a repeat of what happened last month. Of course, human is to error but if we were keen enough, we wouldn’t have missed the opportunity,” talked about the historic Sofapaka man.
Misplaced Opportunity Would not Hurt
The 2, in the in the intervening time think that better alternatives are in the pipeline especially Majabe who’s banking on the main national crew call-up to open greater doors.
They train they snatch into legend the misplaced opportunity to are attempting luck in Italian football a thing of the previous that will not dampen their hopes of making it to the professional level.
that will not dampen their hopes of making it to the professional level.
-By SportsBoom.com-
