Gor loses cash to Eastleigh cartel printing fake jerseys

By HUDOSN GUMBIHI

Gor Mahia is likely to be losing millions of shillings to a racket of counterfeit T-shirts in Nairobi.

During the week, police smashed a fake football kits syndicate at Eastleigh’s Garissa Lodge and seized 16 fake T-shirts with Gor and KPL logos.

The sting police operation, however, failed to arrest a trader behind the counterfeits.

The owner of the shop where the fake football jerseys were being sold locked it up and fled.

Police could not break into the store since they had no search warrant but they arrested four men who included a Tanzanian.

The owner of the business is a woman believed to be from Tanzania.

Kogalo’s first vice chairman Faiz Magak said the T-shirts are shipped from China into Kenya where the logos are fixed.

He said Gor has only one trader licensed by their sponsor Tuzo to distribute the football T-shirts to Gor Mahia fans.

Tuzo imports the uniforms from China.