Harambee Stars players receive major allowance boost ahead of AFCON

Harambee Stars captain Victor Wanyama (left) and Joash Onyango during the team training session in Paris, France on June 13, 2019. [Courtesy]

With just a few days left to the beginning of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt, the Kenya team has received a major boost after Football Kenya Federation (FKF) President Nick Mwendwa confirmed that the players and technical team had been paid their allowances.

 “I want to set the record straight, when we left Kenya every player got 2,500 dollars (Ksh 254,625) and we promised Kenyans when the coach releases his final 23-man squad, we will pay 5,000 dollars (Ksh 509,250) and I can tell Kenyans again that on Friday, all players and the bench were paid all the money,” Nick Mwendwa told journalists upon the team’s arrival in Spain.