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Injured fan vows to never set foot inside a stadium
Football fan Dominic Mokaya who was injured on Sunday at Gusii Stadium.
What you need to know:
- Rodgers Momanyi,50, also got injured in the chaos. When Nation Sport visited him at Hema Hospital in Kisii town, he was still undergoing treatment.
- “I had just got out of the stadium after the match when a huge stone hit me on the back of my head. I immediately lost consciousness and when I came to, I found myself lying on this hospital bed, being attended to by a team of doctors. I was told that I was rushed here by a good Samaritan,” Momanyi said.
Some of the fans who were injured when violence broke out on Sunday at Gusii Stadium in Kisii County during a Football Kenya Federation Premier League match between Gor Mahia and Shabana FC have narrated harrowing tales of close shave with death on the day.
While thanking God for sparing his life, football fan Dominic Mokaya, who suffered a broken jaw has vowed never to again set foot in a football stadium.
Mokaya, 31, arrived at Gusii Stadium at 1.30pm to watch his team Shabana play 21-time Football Kenya Federation Premier League champions Gor Mahia.
He had bought a ticket at Sh300 for the terraces but when he arrived, the 12,000-seater stadium was already full to capacity.
Not knowing where to sit so as to watch the match, he spotted space in one of the stands which had been reserved for Gor Mahia fans, and sat on the seat without hesitation.
No sooner had he sat down than stones started flying in his direction. An altercation between Shabana and Gor Mahia fans had ensued and he knew that he was equally in trouble.
He tried to get his phone from his pocket to record what was happening but the stones overwhelmed him, and he scampered for safety along with other fans.
When he stopped to help a woman who had fallen down, a huge stone hit him on the face and he began bleeding profusely.
“I saw blood oozing from my mouth after I had been hit by an unknown person. I checked on my phone’s mirror and I realized that a stone had hit me, badly disfiguring my mouth. I rushed to an ambulance which was waiting at the stadium, and I was rushed to hospital,” Mokaya said at his Keumbu home.
He added, “My mouth had to be stitched. Since yesterday, I can hardly eat any solid food because I feel pain whenever I try to open my mouth or chew something. I also feel that some of my teeth are aching and I am planning to go back to the hospital."
Rodgers Momanyi, who was injured at Gusii Stadium on Sunday sits in the wards at Hema Hospital in Kisii yesterday.
Rodgers Momanyi,50, also got injured in the chaos. When Nation Sport visited him at Hema Hospital in Kisii town, he was still undergoing treatment.
“I had just got out of the stadium after the match when a huge stone hit me on the back of my head. I immediately lost consciousness and when I came to, I found myself lying on this hospital bed, being attended to by a team of doctors. I was told that I was rushed here by a good Samaritan,” Momanyi said.
According to a report by Football Kenya Federation, chaos at Gusii Stadium left at least 72 fans injured.