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Kenya: Leopards Saved From Dissolution


The East African Standard (Nairobi)
 

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The East African Standard (Nairobi)

7 May 2008
Posted to the web 7 May 2008

Robin Toskin
Nairobi

One of Kenya's best-known football clubs, AFC Leopards, were hanging by their bootlaces, saved from disbanding (but only just) by a Nairobi slum politician.

The 12-time Kenyan champions were due to disband on Tuesday after several distress calls drew blank.

Gilbert Selebwa and George Wakasala, who are coaching and financing the club, had opted to throw in the towel, but a last minute plea from Kawangware ward councillor, Ezekiel Nyabera, put paid to an intended announcement to disband the club with not a single registered official in sight, let alone the patron Cyrus Jirongo, arguably one of the richest politicians from Western Province which boasts the club's strongest, nay fanatical, support.

"As much as we would like to keep Leopards alive, I think the club has reached the end of its life and it is a matter of when, not if, before we forget about this club," Selebwa said at the team's Ikulu training ground where they had assembled



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