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Fresh start or continuation doom?
Football Kenya Federation President Nick Mwendwa reacts during the hearing of a case challenging several aspects of the electoral code of the Football Kenya Federation Electoral board at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Building, Nairobi on on November 19, 2019.
What you need to know:
- Kenyans expect blunders from FKF and anything reported that is negative is possible with the football body
- With his multiple arrests and a Fifa ban imposed on Kenya, which was later lifted, we have seen only the downside of football in this country
- Our only worry is that we are still in the dark about what our “new” FKF boss thinks he can be done to improve our game
Saturday was April Fools’ Day. On Thursday, the court cleared Football Kenya Federation (FKF) president Nick Mwendwa of corruption and abuse of office charges. If the ruling had been made on Saturday, many of us would have taken the news with a pinch of salt.
Nevertheless, a section of the media reported that having been cleared of any charges by the court, Mwendwa had gone ahead and appointed Denis Oliech as the head coach of Harambee Stars! The story alluded to the fact that the FKF president was uncannily silent about the fate of the present national team coach Engin Firat; it also pointed out that Kenya has been forced to pay millions of shillings in compensation for breach of contract against past national team coaches!
