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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Football stakeholders are calling for full disclosure from Football Kenya Federation regarding the Sh125million undelivered Outside Broadcasting van to pave way for a constructive discussion as proposed by Fifa.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the world football governing body declined the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) request that it forms a Normalisation Committee to manage FKF\u2019s daily activities pending fresh elections.<\/p>\n

Fifa also insisted the current FKF National Executive Committee remains in office while calling for a round-table meeting with the FKF, the SDT representative(s), the Minister of Sport and any other relevant stakeholders in order to find a way forward.<\/p>\n

The decision, however, has not gone down well with the interested parties that won a petition filed by FKF at the Sports Tribunal.<\/p>\n

Immediately the announcement was made on Wednesday the parties led by an aspirant Lordvick Aduda and former AFC Leopards chairman Alex ole Magelo read mischief in the letter, which he said trashed the Constitution of Kenya all its judicial avenues available to sports organisations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have written a letter to Fifa seeking answers to some of these things. We wait for their answers but there can be no round-table without Fifa first clearing air about the OB van, which is a resource for Kenyan clubs as it was sourced using the Fifa Forward Funding,\u201d Magelo said yesterday.<\/p>\n

Aduda linked the current impasse to the undelivered Outside Broadcasting van that FKF paid the now insolvent WTS Media Group Limited Sh125million from the Fifa Forward Fund.<\/p>\n

Aduda also claimed that Veron Mosengo-Omba, as the Member Associations Head for Africa and the Caribbean, oversaw the technical evaluation and subsequent approval of the van months before the UK-based company collapsed with creditors\u2019 money, FKF being one of them.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Kakamega Homeboyz chairman Cleophas \u2018Toto\u2019 Shimanyula said FKF must account to the people of Kenya before any constructive talks can take place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is only fair that everything is put on the table for all to see what has been happening at the federation,\u201d Shimanyula said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SDT ruled that FKF\u2019s term has ended. The same office spent Sh125million from the Fifa Forward Fund to purchase an OB van, but which has not been delivered. Now we are being told that they continue holding office as if nothing happened,\u201d Shimanyula said.<\/p>\n

Fifa Forward Fund is money available to Member Associations to finance strategic long-term goals, implementing tailor-made development projects to provide football infrastructure and competitions as well as to promote and advance women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n

In 2016, immediately Nick Mwendwa was elected president, FKF embarked on an ambitious project to buy an OB van for production of football content. The Kenyan FA put together a proposal for an 8-camera OB van with technical specifications to match those demanded by the Confederation of African Football for it to be able to broadcast continental matches and save local clubs the cost of production in Caf assignments. FKF had also hoped to use the van to generate content and extra money to supplement its programmes.<\/p>\n

No sooner had FKF paid Sh125million to WTS Media Group Limited for the van than the company based in Leeds, England, was declared insolvent.<\/p>\n

When news surfaced that WTS Media Group Limited had gone into administration on April 11 last year, Fifa told Standard Sports in October last year that they were waiting for \u2018full report from FKF\u2019s lawyers on the non-delivery of the vans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Numerous inquiries have yielded no response from Fifa and Mosengo-Omba. Yesterday, Standard Sports sent the questions again to Mosengo-Omba, who is now Fifa Chief Member Associations Officer, but by the time of going to Press he had not responded to the inquiries.<\/p>\n

WTS Media Group Limited\u2019s administrators Martha Thompson and William Matthew Humphries Tait of BDO LLP the Joint Administrators have listed FKF\u2019s Sh125million deposit as \u2018unsecured credit\u2019. While the secured creditors stand a better chance of recovering what they are owed, \u2018unsecured creditor\u2019 settles for whatever can be salvaged from WTS Media Group if they win a legal suit they have to file in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya: Football stakeholders are calling for full disclosure from Football Kenya Federation regarding the Sh125million undelivered Outside Broadcasting van to pave way for a constructive discussion as proposed by Fifa. On Wednesday, the world football governing body declined the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) request that it forms a Normalisation Committee to manage FKF\u2019s daily activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[90,828,2067,2266,2268],"class_list":["post-5010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-fifa","tag-fkf","tag-football-kenya-federation","tag-sdt","tag-sports-disputes-tribunal"],"yoast_head":"\nFIFA\u2019s Mosengo-Omba pressured to clear the air over WTS Media Group deal - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Football stakeholders are calling for full disclosure from Football Kenya Federation regarding the Sh125million undelivered Outside Broadcasting\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIFA\u2019s Mosengo-Omba pressured to clear the air over WTS Media Group deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Football stakeholders are calling for full disclosure from Football Kenya Federation regarding the Sh125million undelivered Outside Broadcasting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-27T15:45:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/nutad94orgjst7fm5e7cd9124999d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FIFA\u2019s Mosengo-Omba pressured to clear the air over WTS Media Group deal\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-27T15:45:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal\"},\"wordCount\":693,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/nutad94orgjst7fm5e7cd9124999d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"FIFA\",\"FKF\",\"Football Kenya Federation\",\"SDT\",\"Sports Disputes Tribunal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/fifas-mosengo-omba-pressured-to-clear-the-air-over-wts-media-group-deal\",\"name\":\"FIFA\u2019s Mosengo-Omba pressured to clear the air over WTS Media Group deal - 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