Fresh reports have emerged on how Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) were denied more than Sh90million despite the same having been approved by the Sports Fund in July.
Documents in our possession show that Sports Principal Secretary Peter Kaberia and the fund chairman Jackson Tuwei failed to sign a document that would have allowed KRU to receive the money and perhaps avoid the shame of being auctioned.
On July 16, a written resolution of the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund approved a total of Sh94million to fund various activities of KRU.
A total of Sh15million was to fund the under-20 team’s participation in the age category World Cup in Brazil from July 4 to July 22.
Another Sh35million was approved to support the National Rugby Women team take part in the Rugby Women’s Cup in South Africa in August.
The Rugby men’s team was supposed to receive Sh43million to facilitate their participation in the Gold Cup in September.
But surprisingly, the resolution was neither signed by Kaberia who is the fund administrator and Tuwei who chairs the board of the fund effectively crippling the Union as they could not be paid the money, an amount that would have gone a long way to help them pay their debts and avoid the embarrassment of being auctioned.
The document that would have allowed KRU to receive the money:
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