Claims shared on social media indicating that Kisumu Day Secondary School has won a football match appeal against Agoro Sare Secondary School are FALSE.
Agoro Sare High School played Kisumu Day Secondary in the finals of the Nyanza Region boys football game on Monday, July 24, 2023, during which the former won 7-6 in a penalty shoot-out.
As a result of the loss, Kisumu Day appealed against the win claiming that Agoro Sare High School fielded an ineligible player.
In the letter addressed to the Secretary of the Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association, Kisumu Day claimed that one of the players fielded was a form three student of Dagoretti Secondary School last year and was, therefore, not supposed to play.
On Thursday, however, social media was awash with reports that Kisumu Day had won the appeal.
A Facebook page by the name Azimio One Kenya News Update shared such a claim stating:
“Bad news to Homabay county football fans after Kisumu Day wins appeal against Agoro Sare and will now represent the Nyanza region. Agoro Sare banned for two years.”
The Star Fact Checker has however debunked the claim and established that they are misleading.
Kisumu Day appeal was thrown out and Agoro Sare will be the boys’ school from the Nyanza region that will play in the national games.
Several media reports including Citizen TV and Daily Nation have confirmed that Kisumu Day School lost the appeal.
The Star Fact checker went further and spoke to Nyanza region Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association secretary Thomas Odhiambo who confirmed that Kisumu Day lost the appeal.
Odhiambo also confirmed the authenticity of the letter above.
“Yes, It is true Kisumu Day lost its appeal. As KSSSA, we sat and evaluated the said letter and evidence presented by Kisumu Day. We established that it was not enough to have the appeal sail through. We, therefore, struck it out and Agoro Sare High School will now represent the Nyanza region at the National Level,” Odhiambo told The Star.
The Star Fact Checker has debunked the claim shared on Facebook claiming that Kisumu Day's appeal has sailed through and found it to be false.
This fact check was published by The Star with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck and African Fact-Checking Alliance.