FKF suffers fresh blow in its quest to hold elections as court bars AGM

Football Kenya Federation has suffered a fresh blow in its quest to hold the much-awaited elections.

This is after the High Court in Nairobi on Tuesday issued fresh orders barring the Kenyan football governing body from proceeding with holding an Annual General Meeting[AGM] or conducting any act pending the hearing of a case filed.

"In the interim, the Respondents are hereby prohibited from calling any AGM of the Federation or doing any act of the Federation as prayed for in the motion pending hearing of the application. These orders shall remain in force up to 7/10/2024, unless otherwise varied by a court order."

The AGM is supposed to give a road map for the polls and with the court directive it means football stakeholders will wait for a little longer before they can go to the polls to elect new leadership.

Mwendwa, in his address during the FKF Awards Gala on Friday at a Nairobi hotel said the court barriers that had stopped the process "are now out of the way."

In March 2024, the journey to the elections was stopped just before it gathered momentum, as the Annual General Meeting which should have given the road map to the crucial polls was stopped through a court order.

It is the case which had been filed by FKF’s Coast Region National Executive Council (NEC) member Gabriel Mghendi that had prompted journalist Milton Nyakundi to seek the order, arguing that until the court ruled on the case, the NEC could not convene an AGM.

That case has since been withdrawn, hence Mwendwa’s assurance.

“There are no more court cases, they are over. If you want to continue with the good job that has been going on, start preparing your papers we meet at the ballot in October,” a confident Mwendwa said.

However Nuyakundi sought fresh orders which the court granted on Tuesday.

 Speaking at the Awards Gala, former Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba advised the federation to fast track the elections.

“My parting shot, FKF, the entire fraternity of FKF, you are sitting on a diamond mine. I implore that you make sure that the little issue of holding elections is sorted out. Make sure that the environment is clear and you run football in a manner that will make Kenya envy when it comes to football in this region.

“There is no reason why our players should be finding Tanzania a more attractive league than ours…” he said, adding that he had given guarantees to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) that Kenya will not disappoint in hosting African Cup of Nations 2027, as one of his last tasks before exiting the Ministry.