Hatimy is fighting to restore credibility to Kenyan football

The acting chairman of the Kenya Football Federation (KFF) has pledged to return the sport in his country to normality.

Yet Mohammed Hatimy will have to overcome the threat of arrest hanging over any delegates attending Saturday's annual general meeting.

Peter Ochiel, who chairs a rival group bidding for control of Kenyan football, has asked police to arrest any attendee at the meeting in Malindi in Coastal Province.

Ochiel heads an interim committee which will also be holding an annual general meeting on Saturday, although this will be in Nairobi.

"The truth is I am trying to clean the KFF," Hatimy told BBC Sport.

The Hatimy meeting is illegal and we have asked the police to arrest anybody who attends Peter Ochiel

"As you know, there are people in football because of football and there are people in football because of what is in football.

"We are trying to clean those people who are in football because of what is in football.

"It is not that easy to succeed, and we have to fight very hard.

"We will succeed and everything will go back to normal."

Both Hatimy and Ochiel have accused one another group's of being illegal in the run-up to Saturday.

Football's world governing body Fifa has backed the acting KFF and is sending two representatives to Malindi.

Meanwhile, Ochiel claims his interim committee is legally in office because it has been registered by the Registrars Society.

"The Hatimy group has not been registered," Ochiel told BBC Sport.

"They are operating illegally and we wonder why the long arm of the law has not caught up with them.

"The Hatimy meeting is illegal and we have informed the police.

"We have asked them to arrest anybody who attends that meeting."

In addition, Ochiel accused Fifa of interfering in the running of Kenyan football, saying the ruling body was not supposed 'to micromanage us'.

Yet Fifa's patience with Kenyan football is considerably thin and president Sepp Blatter has advised the nation to put its house in order or risk a ban.

Fifa's Executive Committee meet in Zurich on 30-31 May when it will decide on Kenya's future.

The country has been banned twice in the last three years for governmental interference in football and faces a similar punishment again.

"We know the sports minister is not happy with my committee because we have been recognised by Fifa," said Hatimy.