Mariga ousted as FKF vice-president following stormy meeting in Meru

NAIROBI, Kenya – Football Kenya Federation vice president MacDonald Mariga has been stripped of his position on the National Executive Committee (NEC), alongside six other members, following a contentious meeting in Meru on Saturday. The expulsion came at a Special General Meeting (SGM) chaired by FKF president Hussein Mohammed.

Out of the sixty-five delegates present, a majority of sixty-five voted to revoke Mariga's position, while AFC Leopards chair Boniface Ambani was the sole dissenter. Dan Shikanda from Nairobi, Collins Kalee from Nyanza, Bernard Lagat from Rift Valley, Violet Kerubo, the women’s representative, Robert Macharia from Central, and Gabriel Mghendi from the Coast were also expelled from the NEC.

After the seven members' removal, Hussein stated that they had been invited to present their case during the assembly but chose not to do so or send a legal representative. "Just for the record, all the seven members of NEC who the Congress has taken action on today were invited to give submissions. None of them did. They never responded in writing.

They never sent a representative. They were asked to even nominate a legal representative, but they never did," Hussein commented. The SGM unfolded amid a tumultuous morning, where differing factions clashed, prompting the involvement of police officers from the Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU). Teargas engulfed the Three Steers Hotel, the meeting's venue, as factions exchanged heated words.