Who forged KPL signatures? KPL accuses Nyamweya team of forgery

“It is clear that the attachment of that purported attendance sheet to the resolutions is a forgery and/or the making of an unlawful document which is intended to mislead. For the avoidance of doubt, we as KPL were not party to the adoption of these resolutions and in particular, we do not subscribe to the resolutions,” writes Oguda.

The Kakamega meeting had resolved that the local football league would be constituted of an 18-team league adopting an August to May football calendar season. In the meeting, KPL also purportedly gave the league’s TV rights to MP Silva, a media rights company that owns, manages and distributes sports media rights.

“We hope that the purported attendance sheet has not been used to mislead any party that we either attended the Kakamega SGM or that we adopted the above-mentioned resolutions,” concludes Oguda.

However, FKF in their immediate reply accused KPL of using unauthenticated documents. In a letter dated April 7, 2015, FKF accused KPL of forgery, stating that the documents in Oguda’s possession were not the papers from Kakamega meeting. Through the federation’s Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Esakwa, FKF argues that Oguda failed to get facts right.

Esakwa takes great exception to the attached sheet of delegates, which according to FKF, was not an authentic document from the federation and did not reflect the attendance of the January SGM.

“Your appended list of delegates does not match, neither does it conform to the standard attendance list of a general meeting. We need an apology from you for giving misleading and fabricated information. This is obviously a forged document,” writes Esakwa.

As the two bodies fight, questions over who forged what document remain unanswered. The Nairobian is in possession of numerous correspondence and documents from FKF that a source from the federation described as a dossier that could expose the chairman and top officials.

Among the documents is a letter dated March 26, from FKF Chairman, Sam Nyamweya addressed to Adrea F. Silva of MP & Silva. In the letter, Nyamweya seeks to assure Andrea that the deal signed between FKF and MP & Silva is a standing partnership and a valid contract that will remain unaffected in the 2015 season.

“We assure you that at the end of the current Kenyan football season, 2015, any and all rights concerning the premier league shall not be available for any other player in the industry other than yourselves as already stipulated in our partnership,” writes Nyamweya.

The source from FKF who declined to be named, said the war over the league’s management had weakened the federation’s top leadership and tested Nyamweya’s leadership skills.

“I sit in the federation’s top decision making body, but we were never told about the deal with MP & Silva. All we know is that the chair assured them of the league’s TV rights knowing so well that only KPL could do that,” complained our source.

The source further alleges that someone at the federation could be responsible for the forged papers. The source gave a letter from MP & Silva’s Roberto Dalmiglio.

In the letter, Dalmiglio seeks to have the TV rights deal renegotiated: “We suggest to renegotiate between now and when the next payment is due on May 16 to come to a mutually agreeable compromise to ensure our continued cooperation on this exciting project,” writes Dalmiglio.

While at it, legal experts opine that any local footballer with the documents can easily move to court. “Forgery is a crime which can be reported to the police and have the suspects arrested. Any agreement done on the basis of an illegality is null and void ab initio (from the beginning),” says Elvis Majani, an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. 

The FKF chairman has rubbished a list circulating with purported forged signatures of KPL club chairmen as nonsense.

“The list that is circulating with allegedly forged signatures from our AGM in Kakamega is total rubbish,” Nyamwea told The Nairobian.“There is no way the minutes of an AGM can be released before the next AGM is held. It didn’t come from us and we know who produced it”.

He said that KPL should know that they are a subordinate of the federation running the league on FKF’s behalf. On the deal between FKF and MP & Silva, the FKF boss said: “Why would you like to know and you are not part of the deal?

Why is it of concern to those who are not part of it. If anything, Kenyans should now be happy that we have landed a deal that will have