By John Nene BBC Sport, Nairobi

Fifa's Jerome Champagne has rejected Kenya's draft constitution

Fifa has rejected Kenya's draft constitution and asked the Normalisation Committee to make the necessary amendments within seven days.

A four-man Fifa delegation that visited Nairobi at the weekend noted that the new draft did not conform to the body's statutes.

Football's world governing body say that the Kenya Football Federation's new secretary-general should be appointed by the executive committee and not elected, as was the case in the past.

The Fifa delegation, led by the deputy secretary-general Jerome Champagne, also decided that elections for the country's new football federation should be held on 29 December under the new constitution.

One of the Fifa delegates Taha Ismael, the man in charge of development for North and East African countries, said that the regional elections will be held under the current constitution.

"We decided to follow Fifa statutes of the secretary-general being appointed by the executive committee or the governing council because the elected one is prone to politics which stagnates the game,'' said the Cairo-based Ismail.

The chairman of the Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee, Kipchoge Keino, said the posts of secretary-general and financial controller will be advertised after Fifa's approval is given for the new constitution.

"The applicants will then forward their details for consideration," Keino explained.

"This time we're not taking any chances.

"We want continuity in football because we know the importance of the secretary-general's position.

"There'll no more politics again, I know some of the aspirants who were gunning for the post will be disappointed because most of them don't have the right qualifications.''

Keino also announced that there would be eleven positions contested at the 29 December elections: the chairman, senior vice-chairman, four vice-chairmen including one woman and the executive committee members.

"They will in turn meet and appoint the secretary-general and his team to run the secretariat on a full-time basis with salaries paid for by Fifa,'' said Keino.