Football Kenya Federation are not keen in renewing their contract with Kenyan Premier League when the current term expires in September next year, FKF president Nick Mwendwa has said.
The two bodies had a frosty relationship in the first two years of the Mwendwa led regime in office manifested from numerous issues ranging from the top league’s composition to releasing of players for national teams’ assignments.
However, things cooled down last year, a season after the adoption of the 18-team league format.
But as their contract with KPL nears expiry, Mwendwa has hinted at having an independent company with an elected chairman to run the league.
“In September 2020, it will be the job of members to decide what happens to the league when KPL’s contract expires. We already have in mind how we would like this to be. Maybe we will not have the company as its constituted today but still we want an independent entity,” Mwendwa told The Standard Sports.
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“It is likely we are going to register a new entity and configure it properly. We want to finish this issue of people not knowing where the line stops.
“We don’t want to have a revolving chairmanship at KPL. We want to have a chairman that is elected just like the FKF president with an executive to run the league. We could even decide that chair, needs to be neutral so that it’s no longer a club chairman who leads the other chairmen.
“We had a lot of issues with KPL in our first two years in office.
They needed to recognize that there is a federation and we wanted them to understand how things are done.
Their work is to commercialise the league and not whistle-blower he added.
