NSL: Nyaberi calls for focus as aggrieved Sacco challenge walkover ruling

Murang’a Seal head coach Vincent Nyaberi has implored his charges to maintain their focus as they seek to secure promotion to the top flight league next season.

The St Sebastian Park-based outfit placed third behind Bomet, Fortune Sacco, and league leaders APS Bomet consolidated their case for a top-two finish by brushing aside struggling Silibwet Leons 1-0 to haul their points tally to 58, four adrift of second-placed Fortune Sacco.

Nyaberi says their resilience amidst a jam-packed fixture schedule will prove pivotal as they aim to finish within the qualifying slots.

“We understand it will not be easy now that more than four sides are in contention for promotion.

“I urge my players to firmly focus on our matches so that we can have fate in our hands at the end of the season.”

Nyaberi has, at the same time, urged the FKF Caretaker Committee to relook its verdict on their abandoned clash against Zoo Kericho earlier this year, in which the latter was awarded a 2-0 walkover despite not availing a well-equipped ambulance in good time as required by the rules of the game.

“Our view is that the Caretaker Committee should employ a non-partisan approach when handling contentious affairs like our encounter against Zoo Kericho.

“It is a basic requirement that the home side should secure a well-equipped ambulance in good time before kick-off.

“We do not understand why they reached at such a decision when the violation was blatant and clear on the side of Zoo.”

Elsewhere second-placed Fortune Sacco has challenged the FKF Caretaker Committee’s decision to award Shabana a 2-0 walkover for their abandoned match slated for June 1st this year.

In a letter signed by club Secretary Timothy Muthike and assistant secretary Julius Kariuki, Sacco (Fortune) has implored the FKF Caretaker Committee to reconsider its decision, given that other matches across the league were affected by the Madaraka Day celebrations that were held in different match venues across the country.           

“The events of the day were beyond our control. That being a government function held in a government-owned field, we could only wait for the function to end.

“Other matches that suffered the same predicament kicked off albeit late, we fail to understand why this match could not kick off,” reads the statement in part.

Weekend Results

Murang’a Seal 1-0 Silibwet Leons

Vihiga United 2-2 Kisumu All-Stars

Mara Sugar 2-0 MCF

Coastal Heroes 2-1 Migori Youth

Mwatate United 3-2 Shabana

SS Assad 0-0 APS Bomet

Muhoroni Youth 3-0 Gusii FC