Football Kenya Federation (FKF) is expected to provide 34 crucial documents as key government agencies start a probe into possible financial misappropriation.
The Kenyan FA is currently under scrutiny by anti-graft bodies who will be going through their books of accounts in an attempt to unearth possible misuse and theft of public funds.
An auditor’s report shows that FKF president Nick Mwendwa pocketed KSh11 million in allowances from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals.
The Kenyan government had allocated Sh244 million for Harambee Stars’ preparation for the tournament in Egypt and the team’s build-up camp in France.
According to the auditor’s report, Mwendwa also received Sh55 million in refunds from the federation accounts “without proof of requisite documents”.
On Tuesday, Sports Principal Secretary Joe Okudo informed a committee of Parliament his ministry has invited the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to launch investigations into how Mwendwa was advanced these monies.
This comes after Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed, on October 14, directed the Sports Registrar to undertake an audit on the federation’s accounts.
The Registrar has since constituted a committee that will be seeking to identify areas of non-compliance to the Sports Act and any other relevant law, including submission of annual returns and relevant documents to the ministry.
“The committee will be seeking to establish whether there has been any misappropriation of funds advanced to FKF by the government and any other national organization or person, among others,” Amina said in a letter to FKF.
Among the documents that the committee will be expecting to receive from FKF, on Thursday, October 28, 2021, include all the bank accounts operated by the federation, authorized signatories to the accounts, phone numbers of staff members, national officials/governing council athletes and technical officials.
The committee also asked for the federation’s internal and external audited reports, approved budgets, and the mandate, payment vouchers properly grouped as per voted provisions and annual returns among others.
Oudo said the Sh11 million advanced to Mwendwa was hived off the Afcon budget.
The DCI is also probing Sh57 million in allowances and bonuses to Harambee Stars players and technical bench who travelled for Afcon camps in various countries that were not supported by approved rates.
FKF must also share contracts of engagement of coaches, referees, and staff alongside master payroll, proposals and requests for funding, list of projects undertaken and the respective project implementation status.
In the last two months alone, FKF has broken ranks with three leading partners, including a local betting company and production company contracted to shoot league matches.
But the government now wants the federation to reveal details of those contracts as well as donations and grants from Government, non-governmental organizations and individuals.
FKF was also ordered to share tender documents including, but not limited to, business quality supervisor registers, list of prequalified tenderers and minutes related to procurement.
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