Angry FKF delegates shout at their president Sam Nyamweya at Sameta Lodge in Kisii county on June 26,2015during their AGM. The meeting was later called off by the president citeing insecurity as a threat to their meeting. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)
The much awaited Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Annual General Meeting aborted yesterday after officials failed to agree on delegates vetting system and lack of sufficient security.
FKF President Sam Nyamweya got a hostile reception from delegates and had no option, but to cancel the AGM and promised to meet the federation’s National Executive Committee in one week, to deliberate on the issue and announce fresh dates for the Special General Meeting.
“It is unfortunate that we have over 400 people here whom we cannot account for,” said Nyamweya. “After assessing the situation, we have opted to move away and will summon the national executive committee members to call for new SG.”
However, Gucha OCPD Richard Muguai in whose region the meeting was held, contradicted Nyamweya saying they were waiting for him to hand over the list of delegates before being allowed to the meeting.
“Our work was to provide security and we had a big number of policemen. But we were not shown who the delegates were. They couldn’t differentiate who is who and when we wanted to vet them, they were not ready,” said Muguai.
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“This hotel has its own guests and we cannot establish if they are here as delegates or for private business. All we wanted was for Nyamweya to show us the delegates and we would have given them security to go ahead with the meeting,” said Muguai.
Nyamweya, however, insisted that FKF’s genuine delegates could not be assured of their safety because the security situation was ‘tense’.
“We wrote to the OCPD and the Provincial police Officer (PPO) of our intent to have our SGM here. This is a normal meeting, just like the ones we have been having in the past four years.
“However, we do not want it to get chaotic because we do not know who these people are and where they are from. We understand they had a meeting in Kisumu and came here with an aim of stopping us from going on with our meeting,” said Nyamweya.
Earlier in the morning, fans, observers and delegates, who were first to arrive at the hotel, forced their way in, but did not destroy any property.
Nyamweya was elected in 2011 after he defeated Mohammed Hatimy in the election.
