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DEAL OR NO DEAL? KPL sustains broadcast rights feud with FKF, threatens to go to court

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SuperSport East Africa General Manager Auka Gecheo(L) with FKF Chairman Sam Nyamweya(C) and FKF NEC member Doris Petra(R) addresses before signing a deal between FKF and SuperSport to broadcast Division 1 games at New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi on Monday 22/04/13.PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO

Kenyan Premier League (KPL) will take legal action to stop any attempts to engage a new television deal to replace South Africa’s SuperSport.

The company has also clarified that it tabled the contracts it has entered with all partners during a meeting with Fifa officials on Tuesday, but admitted that due to ‘confidentiality clauses’ did not allow them to be copied or taken away.

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