{"id":240150,"date":"2026-08-02T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-i-am-not-a-plumber-gor-coach-akonnor-shoots-back-at-critics-as-doubts-over-future-emerge\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:10:57","slug":"kenya-i-am-not-a-plumber-gor-coach-akonnor-shoots-back-at-critics-as-doubts-over-future-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-i-am-not-a-plumber-gor-coach-akonnor-shoots-back-at-critics-as-doubts-over-future-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;I Am Not a Plumber!&#8217; Gor Coach Akonnor Shoots Back At Critics As Doubts Over Future Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">NAIROBI \u2014 Gor Mahia head coach Charles Akonnor has shot back at his critics, insisting he is no &#8216;plumber&#8217; as he has been christened by his enemies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A visibly charged Akonnor insisted he is no slouch or newcomer to the game, insisting he has a definite plan for the club&#8217;s success, which has thus far borne fruits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">&#8220;Just that when things go the wrong way and the same negative people always come and talk about it, always set up some groups of people to bash me. The other day somebody was telling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607310263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Gor Mahia head coach Charles Akonnor has shot back at his critics, insisting he is no &#8216;plumber&#8217; as he has been christened by his enemies. A visibly charged Akonnor insisted he is no slouch or newcomer to the game, insisting he has a definite plan for the club&#8217;s success, which has thus far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,39922,7346,8951,13897,9988,5760,8830,4688,430,257,25131,8095,254],"class_list":["post-240150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akonnor","tag-coach","tag-critics","tag-doubts","tag-emerge","tag-future","tag-gor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-plumber","tag-shoots","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}