Nyamweya: FKF Electoral Board roadmap illegal, null and void

Former Football Kenya Federation president Sam Nyamweya has trashed a purported letter by world football governing body FIFA which was addressed to the federation’s CEO Barry Otieno.



According to the outspoken football administrator, the letter dated 5 August 2020 and which calls for fresh elections is premised on mischief and fails to address key issues raised by football stakeholders in the country.



Nyamweya, in a press release to newsrooms on Tuesday, listed 16 pertinent issues on the roadmap to the long-overdue FKF polls and declared that the elections would not go on if reforms were not put in place.



“That for the purpose of openness and transparency and for us to be able to have a clear view, the email letters of 2nd August 2020 and the letter of 11th July 2020 should have been made public,” the statement read in part.



The former FKF boss further queried why the letter selectively chose to implement the ruling of the Sports Disputes Tribunal on 17th March 2020 which nullified FKF branch elections.



“We wish to remind the author of this email letter of the Sports Disputes Tribunal ruling of 17th March 2020 which declared sections four of the the FKF Electoral Code 2020 uncostitutional as it violates Article 38 and 81 of the Kenya constitution 2010. By this declaration the whole FKF process was nullified this includes all the process leading to the purported elections,the voter register, the shortlisted candidates fell pn the same premise.”



He added that it was thus counterproductive for FIFA to call for fresh elections which SDT had been quite emphatic about and instead maintained that such a process could only be meaningful if it begins on the right footing.



“That a fresh FKF electoral process to commence on the right footing, such a process should include a comprehensive review of Section Four of the Electoral Code 2020 by the stakeholders.”



Other issues he wants factored in are a new and inclusive voter register, that the said register to include all FKF sub branch clubs which have been transformed to counties and that it should be free of ghost and brief case clubs.



Nyamweya has also taken issues with the FKF electoral board warning them against taking directives from the foresaid letter to develop a roadmap to the elections. He said the letter was not in any way addressed to the chair of the elections board.



“That the FKF Electoral Board and the chairperson of the Board cannot derive a cause of action on the basis of this letter.”



“The purported attempts by the FKF Electoral Board to introduce and or ammend the eligibility criteria is illegal, ulterior and void.”



He concluded by urging for an all inclusive roundtable stakeholders forum guided by the Sports Disputes Tribunal to help unlock the electoral impasse.