Inside the Fifa paper trail that brought down FKF chief Hussein Mohammed

FKF President Hussein Mohammed before the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism Committee at Bunge Towers, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The fall of Football Kenya Federation (FKF) President Hussein Rashid Mohammed did not come from the boot of a player or the whistle of a referee. It came from a paper.

On April 24, the FKF National Executive Committee, led by Vice President Macdonald Mariga Wanyama, passed a resolution forcing Mohammed, nominated NEC member Abdullahi Yussuf Ibrahim, and acting General Secretary Dennis Gicheru to step aside pending investigations into alleged financial impropriety.

A 58-page dossier of banking records, regulatory letters, and email correspondence tying Hussein to financial malfeasance has now been forwarded to the global football governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa).

The petition that started it all began on April 21 when Francis Ngira, a football stakeholder, sent an email to the NEC with a subject line, URGENT: Governance Concerns Requiring Immediate FKF - NEC Deliberation and Action.

“I have attached a formal submission outlining serious governance concerns, alleged financial irregularities, and potential conflicts of interest within FKF, specifically relating to the CHAN 2024 insurance procurement process. The matters raised are grave and go to the core of governance, fiduciary responsibility, and institutional integrity,” Ngira wrote

Ngira gave the NEC seven days to act but they took three.

According to documents filed with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), a petition dated 2024 alleged that “a sum of USD 328,735.00 (approximately Sh 42,755,000) was transferred to the unauthorized firm’s account at First Community Bank Limited on  August 4, 2025.

The recipient was Riskwell Insurance Brokers Limited, a company that, according to official records, had no business handling insurance brokerage.

When asked to confirm Riskwell’s status, the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) said the firm did not exist in its records.

In a letter dated March 26, 2026, IRA indicated that its official 2025 list of licensed insurance brokers spanning 237 firms across 37 pages  contained no mention of the company.

The Association of Insurance Brokers of Kenya (AIBK) was even more direct:

“We wish to confirm that the company has not been our member and cannot, therefore, comment on its eligibility.”

Riskwell Insurance Brokers Limited was incorporated on June 25, 2025. Forty days later, on August 4, 2025 at precisely 3:08pm, the Sh 42.7 million brokerage fee landed in its account.

In the correspondence with Fifa, the executive council laid out seven grounds justifying the suspension of Mohammed. They claimed he sidelined and excluded NEC members for over six months, systematically preventing them from performing their executive roles.

“For a period exceeding six months prior to the resolution, NEC members consistently requested the convening of formal meetings through official communication channels, including the NEC WhatsApp platform. Despite these efforts, such requests were not acted upon.”

The NEC accused Mohammed of violating Kenya’s Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act and Public Finance Management Act through non-competitive procurement of goods and services.

They also accused him of making himself the sole signatory on FKF-CAF CHAN accounts. Mariga swore under oath that Mohammed excluded the finance committee and became the sole controller of tournament funds.

“Hussein Mohammed has, however, blatantly abused all internal regulations regarding joint signatures and has sidelined me and the FKF finance committee on all matters regarding FKF finances. He has also since made himself the sole signatory in the FKF-CAF CHAN Account subject of our impugned process,” Mariga wrote.

Mohammed is also accused of failing to implement the finance committee’s resolutions and refusal to involve them.

“Despite this clear framework, the Committee has consistently experienced limited consultation and involvement in critical financial matters. Regrettably, there has been inadequate implementation of these resolutions, and the Committee has not been sufficiently engaged in ongoing financial processes or decisions. Of particular concern is the repeated absence of the General Secretary from Committee meetings.”

Mohammed is aso being accused of irregularly altering NEC minutes to remove financial oversight safeguards as one of the ongoing governance breaches.

The Committee had previously passed resolutions calling for regular internal audits, closure of dormant bank accounts, and full disclosure of all revenue and expenditure streams. None were implemented,” reads the dossier sent to FIFA.

It is claimed that Mohammed also made unilateral human resource decisions and interfered with secretariat functions.

He is also being accused of using FKF funds to mobilise branch chairmen against the NEC immediately after the resolution.

While not illegal, the NEC cited this as evidence of Mohammed’s capacity to interfere with investigations and influence governance processes through financial inducement.

“All 48 FKF branch chairmen present at today’s meeting convened by FKF President Hussein Mohammed were issued Sh50,000 each as an allowance, on top of the Sh5,000 transport stipend disbursed a day earlier.” reads the dossier to Fifa.

Annexed correspondence from Fifa dated April 26, signed by Chief Member Associations Officer Elkhan Mammadov, confirmed that the organisation was currently assessing this matter.

But after being asked to step aside, Mohammed did not go quietly.

Within 48 hours of the resolution, he had mobilized all 48 branch chairmen. A photograph of the meeting, posted on his social media, showed a room of men in matching yellow FKF polo shirts.

“We held a successful engagement with FKF Congress members, all 48 branch representatives and some NEC members to address the attempted coup by a faction within the NEC,” Mohammed wrote.

Simultaneously, Abdullahi Yussuf Ibrahim filed a petition at the Kiambu High Court obtaining conservatory orders restraining Mariga’s team.