FKF NEC suspended the Premier League custodians after defying court rulings and recommendations from the federation on an 18-team league and further instituted disciplinary proceedings against four leading lights including KPL CEO Jack Oguda, chairman James Musyoki (Tukser), vice chairman Ambrose Rachier (Gor) and Mathare United chairman Bob Munro.
Flanked by members of his executive among them vice president Doris Petra, David Gikaria, Tony Kweyu, Timothy Mabea and Chris Amimo, a visibly agitated FKF President Nick Mwendwa accused KPL of undermining the federation’s ambitions of cleaning up the game and ignoring decisions of the Sports Disciplinary Tribunal.
“The ruling by the SDT was very clear that it was within our mandate to have an 18-team league subject to us meeting the financial conditions for an expanded league this year and KPL were firmly aware of that. However, they went on to release a fixture with sixteen teams, defying the court order and also our recommendations. It is for this reason that we have summoned four individuals to explain themselves because they were part of the Joint Executive Committee that came up with the agreements but went on to mislead others to contravene the agreement,” said Mwendwa.
“It’s a shame that they didn’t invite Nzoia to a critical meeting that has implications on their participation in the league. As for the other individual (Rachier) summoned, it is because of issuing unilateral letters to the media, conferring participation rights to teams that have not met the strict licensing rules and they will have to explain themselves,” added Mwendwa. The FKF boss warned that unless their recommendation and the ruling of the SDT are adhered to strictly, the league might not kick off this week.