By Eric Odanga BBC Sport, Nairobi

Kenyan football continues to be in crisis

The football crisis in Kenya is no nearer being resolved after two Fifa officials left the country on Saturday without meeting the Minister for Sports, Najib Balala, who is out of the country.

Egypt's Ismail Taha and Joseph Mifsud from Malta arrived on Friday and held meetings with the outgoing Kenya Football Federation (KFF) executive office and a government representative.

The Fifa officials had also been due to oversee the KFF elections on Saturday but these were postponed following a high court ruling on Thursday.

They however declined to meet the government-appointed KFF transitional committee that is charged with managing the game for three months pending elections.

The Fifa envoys did not make any official announcements during their short visit but, according to outgoing KFF secretary-general Hussein Swaleh, they left disappointed after failing to meet Balala.

"It was the minister who wrote to Fifa president Sepp Blatter and is the main reason for the visit by the two officials," Swaleh said.

"They expected to meet Balala and were not happy that he was unavailable."

Instead, Taha and Mifsud met the sports permanent secretary Nancy Kirui, Commissioner for Sports Emmanuel Odour and Kenya National Sports Council chairman Joshua Okuthe.

We have invited them to come back when the Minister was around Commissioner for Sports, Emmanuel Odour

Oduor refused to say what was discussed at the meeting until the Minister for Sport has been briefed.

"We had to step in because it would have been bad if they did not hear the government's side of the story, we made it clear that Kenya is not breaking ranks with Fifa," he explained.

The Commissioner for Sports seemed surprised that the pair had come specifically to supervise the KFF elections.

"We thought they were interested in solving the current impasse in Kenyan soccer but nothing concrete was reached and we have invited them to come back when the minister was around," he said.

Odour also tried to clear up the confusion surrounding the appointment of the transitional committee which had been appointed by the minister.

"Fifa mistook this for a caretaker committee which is not the case," he explained.

"The transitional committee was formed because the mandate of the KFF had expired without them holding elections."

Swaleh said Fifa would be making their stand known later this week.

The government and the KFF are at loggerheads over allegations of financial impropriety and mismanagement.