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Kenya: Madam CS, Kenyan Football Needs Composure

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Football is a game of instinct and technique, but all the greats of the sport have one other common thing – the ability to almost stop time before making the kind of move that will make an entire stadium lose its marbles. That ability is called composure.

Often the difference between a great and average player is composure; this is why we talk about clinical finishes and define wild misses as a rush of blood to the head.

Kenyan football has a ban in the oven. It’s the worst kept secret in town. The government is determined install a caretaker committee to run football and that will, assuredly, trigger a Fifa ban.

Fifa regulations on independence and government interference are designed specifically for situations such as Kenya’s – a minister who does not like the federation, a government that believes football is not where it ought to be because of a bad run of results on the pitch.

The CS’s stated reason for taking over FKF is financial misappropriation, particularly a sum of Sh244 million released for the 2019 Afcon.

This beguiles the mind because we are in 2021 and government regulations demand that a federation properly accounts for its expenditure before it can receive any more.

FKF has since 2019, received and accounted satisfactorily for approximately another Sh100 million.

FKF is easily the most audited organisation in Kenya. It is audited annually by its own auditors and by Fifa every year.

Recently, it was audited by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the ministry’s internal auditor as well as the Auditor General.