Tackle match fixing in football decisively

Match fixing is becoming a threat to integrity and credibility of Kenyan football. And as the Football Kenya Federation meets with chairmen of all the 18 Premier League clubs today in Nairobi, to combat the vice, the government should also join in.

From the suspension of former Kenyan international George ‘Wise’ Owino from all football related activities for ten years by the world governing body, Fifa, in 2019, to the banning of Kakamega Homeboyz’s quartet of George Mandela, Festo Omukoto, Festus Okiring and Moses Chikati for allegedly influencing the outcome of results last year and further match fixing allegations at Sofapaka, Wazito and Western Stima, it shows the vice is becoming rampant.