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Last Updated: Tuesday, 6 April, 2004, 10:34 GMT 11:34 UK
Fifa in Kenya on Friday
By Eric Odanga
BBC Sport, Nairobi

Kenya's national team
Kenya's national team is still uncertain who is running their sport

Two Fifa officials are due in Kenya on Friday to try resolve the dispute that has engulfed football administration in the country.

The government and the Kenya Football Federation (KFF) are at loggerheads over allegations of financial impropriety and mismanagement.

KFF officials have declared their intention to hold elections in the coastal town of Mombasa on 10 April with the Fifa officials, Malta's Joseph Mifsud and Taha Ismail from Egypt, in attendance.

The government attempted to suspend the current KFF executive and replace it with a transitional committee but a court ruling declared that the transitional committee, under the chairmanship of ex-athlete Mike Boit, had no legal standing to run football in the country.

The KFF secretary Hussein Swaleh said Mifsud and Ismail are due in Nairobi on 9 April.

We are determined to put Kenyan football back to where it is supposed to be
Kenya's minister for sport, Najib Balala

"They will then fly to Mombasa to oversee the KFF elections," Swaleh said.

"We'll abide by any decision that the Fifa officials make."

Swaleh also confirmed that the elections would be held according to the provisions stated in the current KFF constitution.

Meanwhile, Najib Balala, Kenya's sport minister, has insisted that the government will not succumb to Fifa's threats to ban the country from international competition should they continue to interfere in KFF matters.

"Fifa should not make decisions based only on the KFF's side of the story. They should listen to us as well," Balala said.

"We will meet Fifa's representatives and expect them to be objective.

"We are determined to put Kenyan football back to where it is supposed to be."

In the meantime, the Kenyan national squad that will participate in the four-nation LG Cup tournament, taking place in Nigeria on the 29 and 30 April, will be named next week.

African champions Tunisia, Egypt and hosts Nigeria will join the Harambee Stars in the two-day event.


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