Football Kenya Federation President Sam Nyamweya is under investigation by the CID for allegedly forging documents and using them to collect $833,000 (Sh83 million) from an international sponsor.
MP & Silva (Media Partners & Silva Ltd), a company registered in Monaco, wired the money in two tranches after it signed a deal with FKF for the rights to Kenya’s
football Premier League. But FKF did not declare it already had a deal for the Premier League rights with South African company Supersport.
To seal the deal, Nyamweya told the
company the chairmen of all the 15
Premier League clubs had signed the
minutes of a meeting held in Kakamega on January 30, 2015, endorsing the agreement.
The club chairmen have since denied
attending the Kakamega meeting and
said Nyamweya falsely attached their signatures, which were in the attendance documents of a different meeting at the Norfolk Hotel on December 19, 2014.
The Kenya Premier League wrote to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on June 23, asking for Nyamweya and FKF General Secretary Michael Esakwa to be
investigated for making a false
document.
“The KPL Governing Council wishes to categorically state that besides Muhoroni Youth FC chairman and Tusker FC secretary general, the other 14 KPL club officials did not attend the alleged meeting held at Kakamega Golf Hotel on Kakamega on 30th January 2015 and that the 16 KPL clubs did not pass the purported resolution endorsing the MP & Silva Global Licensing Agreement,” said the letter to the CID by KPL chief executive officer Jack Oguda.
The Star called the 15 KPL clubs to
confirm they did not participate in the Kakamega meeting.
All the club chairmen interviewed
denied ever setting foot in Kakamega, with the exception of Muhoroni Youth chairman Moses Adagala.
The chairmen who disowned the meeting are Gor Mahia’s Ambrose Rachier, Col Juma Mwiyikai (Ulinzi), Peter Jabuya
(City Stars), Bob Munro (Mathare
United), Abdullahi Samatar (Bandari), Mike Muriuki (Thika United), George Odhiambo (KCB), Robert Muthomi (Nakuru All Stars), Laban Jobita (Western Stima), Paul Orato (Sony Sugar), Maureen Njongo (Ushuru), Robert Nyakundi (Chemelil), Elly Kalekwa
(Sofapaka), Allan Kasavuli (AFC) and James Musyoka (Tusker).
Resolutions passed at the Kakamega
meeting included forming an 18-team
FKF Premier League, which was to
include clubs from the Kenya Premier League, and increasing the League from its current 16 to 18 teams.
The Kenya Premier League rejected the proposal, saying that increasing the League by a further two teams without adequate
planning and logistics would bring chaos to top-flight football.
Out of the Sh83 million FKF received from the media company, it was in turn to send Sh1 million to the league clubs every month for the eight months’ duration of the league. None of the KPL clubs received the money.
Report by The Star Newspaper, Nairobi.
