Former Harambee Stars ace Dennis Oliech has dismissed reports by his current club Gor Mahia that he has ceased to be a player just barely 24 hours after the Kenyan champions terminated his contract.
On Tuesday, Gor Mahia terminated Oliech's Sh300, 000 contract on grounds that he had failed to appear for training and for among other reasons.
But in an interview with Nation on Wednesday, Oliech dismissed the claims, adding that he has been battling an injury, which has kept him out of training.
The Harambee Stars all-time top scorer also insisted that the club is not comfortable with his approach of fighting for the rights of other players.
“These stories you have been hearing are all lies and the truth of the matter is that I have never recovered from the injury on my hand that fractured, the bandage was just removed two weeks ago.
"The team manager has only called me twice contrary to what is being said and even if I didn't pick he could have texted me. I trained with Gor Mahia twice after they returned from Burundi and after advice from the doctor I had to stay away, the team manager knows that,” said Oliech.
He further alluded the termination of his contract to reports that he intends to vie for the vacant Kibra parliamentary seat in the looming by elections and revealed that the issue is being used to victimise him for being at the fore front in agitating for players' rights concerning the salaries and other issues of mismanagement at the club.
But the Gor Mahia Chief Executive Officer Omondi Aduda maintained that the club was done with him, adding that he failed to show up to put records straight over the matter at hand.
“We are done with him and any action he takes is on his own hands. As an employer, you can’t be my player after terminating your contract. The many issues he is bringing have no value to us because we had time to sort them out but he avoided us,” Aduda said on Wednesday.