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Does Sports Tribunal have powers to call for Normalisation Committee?

Sports Disputes Tribunal chairman John Ohaga (L) during the hearing of a case challenging several aspects of the electoral code of the Football Kenya Federation Electoral board at the Nairobi law courts on February 25, 2020. Photo/Stafford Ondego[Standard]

Does the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) have powers to request world football governing body, Fifa, to impose a Normalization Committee on Kenya? Can Fifa oblige or decline the request? And what is a Normalisation Committee, anyway?

These are questions that have dominated the Kenyan football scene since Tuesday when the local Sports Court stopped Football Kenya Federation (FKF) elections and invited Fifa to consider forming a normalisation committee in terms of Articles 8 and 14 of the Fifa Statutes.

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