FKF Caretaker Committee restrained from conducting elections in Murang’a county
Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Caretaker Committee has been barred from interfering with the status quo of football activities in Murang’a County.
A high court in Murang’a has issued orders directing that the current status quo of affairs of the FKF Murang’a Branch remain maintained as it is and that no circumstances of running football activities in the county should change while the matter is before the court pending the full hearing and a judgment is rendered.
The Caretaker Committee was appointed by the Ministry of Sports on November 12, 2021, to run football activities in the country for six months following the ousting of the Nick Mwenda-led FKF.
Among the mandates of the committee is to conduct fresh elections across all the 47 counties as well as the FKF national office before their expiry of six months term of office which is fast approaching, and hand over the running of football matters to the newly elected office-bearers.
This means that fresh elections under the caretaker committee are likely to be held by the end of April or May this year.
However, Robert Kenneth Wanyoike Macharia who felt aggrieved by the move to cut short their four years term of office, moved to court to have the decision by the ministry stopped.
The ousted FKF office bearers were elected into office in October 2020 and their four years term of office is expected to end in October 2024.
Wanyoike in his Petition No. E002 of 2021 sued the Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Culture, the Hon. Attorney General, and the Sports Registrar, seeking orders barring them or their employees or appointees from going on with any such plans of holding fresh elections in Wanyoike’s county.
The trio did not appear or file their defence or responses and upon reading the application by Wanyoike, the court found the prayer to maintain the status of affairs of football activities in Murang’a county deserving to remain uninterrupted or interfered with.
“The respondents were served but have neither replied nor appeared. The averments by the applicant are thus uncontroverted and I accept them to be true. [And] that pending the hearing and determination of the petition dated December 6, 2021, a conservatory order is hereby issued stopping the respondent or their agent appointees or their servant from coordinating or holding any elections for the petitioner or his office or interfering with the current term of office of the petitioner herein,” the court ruled.
