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Kenya secures Fifa backing to audit troubled Football Kenya Federation, Sports Principal Secretary says

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Joe Okudo, the Principal Secretary in charge of Sports during the official launch of the 1st Africa Deaflympic Ball Game qualifiers at the Karen Technical Training Institute for the Deaf on September 09, 2021. [Stafford Ondego, Standard

The Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Sports Joe Okudo has said the Government has secured the backing of world football governing body, Fifa, in its bid to inspect Football Kenya Federation’s (FKF) accounts.

The PS said this when he appeared before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Tuesday to shade light on the Sh244million advanced to FKF for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt was spent.

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