{"id":240451,"date":"2026-08-06T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-huge-blow-as-sdt-nullify-owalo-appointment-as-gor-mahia-patron-order-fresh-process\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:22:00","slug":"kenya-huge-blow-as-sdt-nullify-owalo-appointment-as-gor-mahia-patron-order-fresh-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-huge-blow-as-sdt-nullify-owalo-appointment-as-gor-mahia-patron-order-fresh-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Huge Blow As Sdt Nullify Owalo Appointment As Gor Mahia Patron, Order Fresh Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">NAIROBI \u2014 The Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) has nullified the appointment of Eliud Owalo as Gor Mahia patron, citing contravention of the club&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a ruling delivered today, the tribunal argued that the power to appoint a club patron is vested in a board of trustees and not the Executive Committee, who appointed the former Cabinet Secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">&#8220;Article 7 establishes the Board of Trustees as the top oversight governing organ of the Club. Article 8(1) reiterates that the Board of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050636.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 The Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) has nullified the appointment of Eliud Owalo as Gor Mahia patron, citing contravention of the club&#8217;s constitution. In a ruling delivered today, the tribunal argued that the power to appoint a club patron is vested in a board of trustees and not the Executive Committee, who appointed the [&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":[258,256,6465,7797,8936,8830,8409,4688,430,19510,257,43620,7576,43733,12395,5755,55059,254],"class_list":["post-240451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointment","tag-blow","tag-fresh","tag-gor","tag-huge","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mahia","tag-news","tag-nullify","tag-order","tag-owalo","tag-patron","tag-process","tag-sdt","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240451","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=240451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240451\/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=240451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}