Kipchoge Keino, President of the Kenyan National Olympic Committee and IOC executive member, has accepted Fifa's proposal to the Emergency Committee that he chair a Normalisation Committee for the Kenya Football Federation under the supervision of Fifa, with the aim of resolving the current problems in Kenyan football and to set up a sound basis for the future. At the meeting (on Friday), the parties agreed to abide by the following proposals from the Fifa administration that will be presented to the Fifa Emergency Committee at a meeting on 6 August 2004:
1. A Normalisation Committee will be set up under the chairmanship of Kipchoge Keino to work with the help and under the supervision of Fifa;
2. At the proposal of Kipchoge Keino, the Normalisation Committee will be composed of: the chairman of the Kenyan Football Federation (Maina Kariuki), 4 club representatives (2 representatives of the KFF official league, Mark Ageng und Kadir Farah, 2 representatives of the rebel league, Bob Munro and Mathews Guy), 6 representatives of grassroots football (Haroun Bomet, Erasmus Munyi, Peter Angwenyi, Mbarak Said, Peter Onalo, Noordin Taib), 1 coach (Sammy Nyongesa), 1 referee (Aziz Mohamed), 1 player's representative (Albert Oketch) and, as an observer, 1 representative from the Sports Ministry (without a vote) at the proposal of the Sports Minister.
3. Fifa will appoint a qualified secretary for the Normalisation Committee at Kipchoge Keino's proposal.
The committee will have the following duties:
1. A guarantee must be procured from the government to reopen the closed offices and make them accessible to the Normalisation Committee to carry out its work.
2. The current statutes must be checked and revised so that new elections can be held. In particular, the top clubs are to be granted a say, taking into account the current hierarchy and rights in amateur football. Fifa must approve the new statutes.
3. A transparent, simplified voting procedure must be devised that is acceptable to all parties.
4. An administration must be restored in the KFF with internationally recognised accounting guidelines.
5. A commitment must be brought about from the clubs in the official KFF Premier League and the rebel league to merge into one single Premier League and to organise the league that is due to begin in September 2004.
6. Dialogue must be resumed with the government, especially with regard to the existing pledge to donate land to realise the Fifa Goal project in Kenya.
Confirmation of this undertaking must reach the Fifa administration by 1 August as a condition for a request to be made to the Fifa Emergency Committee to lift KFF's suspension provisionally.
As a consequence, the KFF national team may be readmitted to the qualifying rounds of the 2006 Fifa World Cup.
The first three matches against Guinea, Morocco and Tunisia have been postponed as a result of the suspension.
The following people from Kenya attended today's meeting: Maina Kariuki (KFF President), Haroun Bomet (KFF Vice-President), Hussein Swaleh (KFF General Secretary), Kipchoge Keino (Kenyan NOC President) and Mark Ageng (Reunion FC chairman).
Bob Munro (Mathare United chairman) was prevented from attending for personal and business reasons, according to a letter he sent to FIFA.
The Fifa delegation comprised: Viacheslav Koloskov (Russia, chairman, Associations Committee and a Fifa executive member), Dr Joseph Mifsud (Malta, UEFA Executive Committee), Dr Urs Linsi (Fifa General Secretary) and J�r�me Champagne (Fifa Deputy General Secretary).
The Fifa Emergency Committee had suspended the Kenya Football Federation on 2 June 2004 on account of government interference in the business of the KFF and violation of the Fifa Statutes.