Shabana FC players react after losing a past match. [PHOTO:FILE]

Shabana FC chairman Jared Nivaton has rubbished suggestions FKF is favouring them in the National Super League Zone B race for promotion to the Kenyan Premier League.

FKF Leagues and Competitions Committee awarded six points to Shabana from their two fixtures against Kakamega Homeboyz and Agro Chemical in the National Super League.

The committee found Kakamega Homeboyz guilty of allowing their coach Edward Manoah to sit on the technical bench when they played Shabana yet he was serving a one-match suspension.

Agro Chemical, according to the Committee, failed to produce the master cards of their players when they played Shabana. Both sides had defeated Shabana with identical 2-0 margin.

But Nivaton, the Shabana boss fumed: “What are we supposed to do? Say oh yes, it is ok they can have points even if they broke the rules?”

He added: “We have strived to play by the rules of the competition all season long. Football or any competition has rules and regulations. Therefore, it is unfair to impute that FKF is favouring us. Shabana will not shy away from raising the red flag if rules are infringed.”

Kakamega Homeboyz founder and financier Cleophas “Toto” Shimanyula claimed the reputation of the second tier league is at stake following the decision to dock them three points.

“Manoah is our technical director not head coach. In any case he was not red-carded. He was instructed to leave the touchline.
“The bottom line is Shabana is being favoured here. It is unfair to subject teams to a promotion campaign, spend millions of shillings when in actual sense there was a pre-determined team to be promoted,” Shimanyula claimed.

FKF Leagues and Competitions Committee chair Doris Petra said aggrieved teams have the right to appeal.

“It is their right. If they have evidence to the contrary they are free to appeal. We arrived at the decision to award Shabana points based on referees’ reports,” Petra said.

Kakamega Homeboyz, Shabana and Agro Chemical all of which are former KPL sides are locked in a fierce promotion battle alongside greenhorns Zoo Kericho.

Shabana were relegated at the end of the 2006 season while Agro Chemical fell off the top flight in 2009 and Kakamega Homeboyz last year.

Three rounds are left to the end of the season. Posta Rangers top Zone A and are overwhelming favourites to return to the top flight where they were relegated from in 2012.