Mombasa based Kenyan lawyer Janet Ndanu Katisya was today elected member of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee.
She will serve alongside four other members who were also elected during the 67th FIFA Congress in Manama, Bahrain for a period of four years each.
Colombia former president of the Council of State Maria Claudia Rajos will head the chamber with Bruno de Vita, a Queen’s Council from Canada and Rwanda’s Martin Ngoga, a former Prosecutor General deputizing her.
Janet, 38, is a member of the Law Society of Kenya, where she serves as the secretary, as well as member of the East Africa Law Society.
She is currently pursuing her MBA at University of Nairobi, Bamburi College.
The independent Ethics Committee is one of FIFA’s judicial bodies. It is primarily responsible for investigating possible infringements of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
Since 2012, it has been divided into two separate chambers – the investigatory chamber and the adjudicatory chamber.
Nigerian Hon. Justice Philips Ayotunde was elected member of the adjudicatory chamber to be headed by Vassilios Skouris of Greece.
Also in the chamber is Jack Koriko of Papua New Guinea.
Ghana’s Justice Anin Yeboah will head FIFA’s disciplinary Committee with Botswana’s McLean Letswiti, Guy Akpovi (Togo) and Mahmoud Hammami (Tunisia) members.
Football Association of Zambian president Andrew Kamanga was drafted member of the Audit and Compliance Committee headed by Tomaz Vesel of Slovakia.
