Don't fill positions, Sam Sholei warns FKF

Suspended Football Kenya Federation (FKF) vice chairman Sam Sholei has warned that it would be unconstitutional to fill up his position while he has a pending appeal.

Sholei said calls by branches for a Special General Meeting (SGM) to fill up his position and that of Hussein Terry and Dan Shikanda are unfounded.

"It will be against the Kenyan law if FKF constitution is not respected and a meeting is called to replace suspended officials. We were illegally suspended.

"Moreover,we have an appeal case at the National Olympic Committee of Kenya with a copy to the Cabinet Secretary for Sports, FKF and the arbitration body that was constituted recently which I have been made aware that it is awaiting swearing in," said Sholei in a statement.

He asked branch officials calling for their replacements to consider the repercussions if the appeal goes through.

"We were never given a chance to defend ourselves by the FKF disciplinary committee, the punishments served were borrowed from kangaroo courts where the accused are never respected.

"We never went to court as alleged. The last document availed at the AGM as copies of our court orders were forged and we proved that in the last year's AGM. The signatures appearing on the order document do not belong to us."

Sholei asked the Government to move quickly and swear in the arbitration committee so that their appeals can be determined.