Champagne says Fifa will reject any decisions taken by the KFF board

Jerome Champagne, Fifa's deputy general secretary, said a special meeting of the KFF board has been postponed as a result of the internal problems.

Champagne warned that Fifa will reject any decisions taken if the meeting, scheduled for Saturday in Nakuru, goes ahead.

Alfred Sambu, the KFF's chairman, is recovering from a car crash which he claimed was related to the crisis, while Erastus Okul, the KFF's second vice-chairman, is in hospital after he was attacked by a mob.

Titus Kasuve, who had been acting as the KFF's secretary-general, was attacked alongside Okul but has been released from hospital.

"Beyond the question of fairness and human dignity when some lay in their hospital beds, Kenyan football currently needs pacification as well as stability," Champagne wrote.

"All the decisions regarding the future of the KFF can be postponed till the end of the year.

"The Kenyan football family should, for the moment, only focus on the game itself."

Fifa's order, made after consultation with Caf, comes amid fears the volatile situation could deteriorate when the Kenyan league championship kicks off on Saturday.

Ochilo Ayacko, Kenya's Sports Minister, has insisted that the KFF's special meeting will go ahead, in spite of Fifa's directive that it be postponed.

"The government has noted with mounting concern that there are efforts to scuttle the meeting," he said in a statement.

Ayacko urged the duly-elected KFF board members to attend the meeting "without fail and use the occasion to resolve the problems bedeviling the federation."

"The meeting has been properly convened according to the KFF constitution and Fifa statutes and must be allowed to go on," he said.