By Eric Odanga BBC Sport, Nairobi

Mulee says the national team is being ignored

Coach Jacob 'Ghost' Mulee will remain in charge of Kenya's national team for the time being.

Although his contract expired on 29 February, he was given a mandate by the Kenya Football Federation (KFF)to continue.

"We were supposed to open new negotiations after the team came back from Tunisia but this has not happened," Mulee told BBC Sport.

After his return from the Cup of Nations finals in Tunisia, Mulee made it clear that he was unwilling to work under the same conditions which gave his team inadequate time to prepare for the tournament.

But Mulee said that his immediate concern was the Harambee Stars preparation for upcoming Four-nation LG Cup in Nigeria next month and the subsequent 2006 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifying match against Guinea in Nairobi on 6 June.

"Our major concern is how or when the national team is supposed to assemble. It appears the team is forgotten, as the KFF officials campaign for the elections," said Mulee.

Mulee, who was in the presence of team manager David Ochieng and assistant coaches Twahir Muhiddin and Mickey Weche, challenged the KFF to let the football fraternity know what plans they had for the national team.

He warned that Kenya was in a tough 2006 qualifying group which had African champions Tunisia and runners-up Morocco.

In response, the KFF secretary general Hussein Swaleh assured Mulee that Harambee Stars would assemble early next month.

"At the moment, we do not have any assignment and it is expensive to keep a team in the camp."