Newly elected Football Kenya Federation Deputy President Doris Petra has cause to worry after her name was adversely mentioned in an expose by renowned investigative journalist John Allan Namu Soka25east.com can reveal.

The serious allegations just come dshs after she took over office as she has bddn accused of being involved in a scandal three years ago in which millions of shillings allocated to the national women football team might have been swindled.

The allegations are contained in a seven minute documentary titled Fix my Country prepared by renowned investigative journalist John Allan Namu.

According to the documentary, sometime in 2012, Petra, then serving as a NEC member in the previous FKF office collected passports of Harambee Starlets players with intent to processing payments from the Government to enable the squad travel to Tanzania to honour a competitive assignment.

However, the trip was cancelled although it later emerged that the passports were stamped by “immigration officials” to indicate that the team visited Tanzania and stayed there for several days.

“An official collected the players’ passports through me as the captain, saying it was for reporting purposes. I did as she requested but it took a while before she returned the passports,” the team’s former captain Doreen Nabwire recounts in the documentary.

According to Nabwire, the players only got back their passports after three weeks but were later told  their traveling documents had serious anomalies.

“I hadn’t noticed the passports had been stamped until a journalist called me up for an interview and asked to scrutinize the document, upon which I noticed that they had been stamped showing that we had been in Tanzania for some seven days,” Nabwire says in the interview

The Government releases funds to cater for national teams whenever they are involved in such assignments. The expenses include airfare, accommodation and per diem.

other than Petra, who is said to have been the team’s Head of delegation at the time, the other person adversely mentioned in scam is a Ministry of Sports official only referred to as Idagwa.

However, Petra has maintained her innocence over the incident.

“I was never involved in that. Maybe there was a reason it was done but not to swindle money. And no other money was spent,” she says.

Collins Okinyo

Ex- CAF Media Expert. An expert on African football with over 15 years experience ,always with an ear to the ground with indepth knowledge of the game. I have worked for top publications including 7 years at www.supersport.com until i founded www.soka25east.com to quench the thirst of football lovers across the continent. I have trained young upcoming journalists who are now a voice in African football.I have covered World Cup,AFCON,CHAN,Champions League,Confederations Cup,Cecafa,Cosafa,Wafu and many other football tournaments across the World. Founder Football Africa Arena(FAA),Founder www.afrisportdigital.com