The embattled Kenya Prisons Women’s Volleyball team have been ordered to board the next available plane and leave Egypt after bowing out of the ongoing annual Africa Club championship-the premier club competition in the continent.
The Ministry of Interior and Coordination made the stern order on Thursday through the Kenyan Embassy in Cairo to make sure the officers leave Egypt ‘as soon as possible’ according to a member of the team who spoke to SPORTSNEWS AFRICA from Cairo, but wished to remain anonymous for fear of victimisation.
This means that Prisons might forfeit their placement match in the ongoing club Championship that served off last Saturday.
Prisons were reportedly ‘taken hostage’ in Cairo after the management of Al-Albilla Hotel confiscated the Pass Ports of all the 12 players and members of the technical bench over unsettled bill.
The negative reports left the Ministry of Interior with an egg on the face. The government moved in quickly to clear the bills, but before ordering the officers, led by Team Manager David Kilundo, a senior officer at the Kenya Prisons Services, to leave Egypt.
Prisons were set to face off with Democratic Republic of Congo’s DGSP for the placement match after they crashed out of the main cup on Wednesday.
But the latest move by the government could see Prisons, as well as Kenya Volleyball Federation, slapped with a hefty fine by the Confederation of Africa Volleyball (CAVB), who were so lenient on the Kenyan champions who also skipped the mandatory Technical Meeting held last Friday following delayed departure to Egypt.
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