Migori based football referee Aden Marwa has been banned for life from all football related activities in Africa.
The punishment was meted out by the Disciplinary Board of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after he was found guilty of match fixing.
The high School teacher was captured on video allegedly receiving a US$ 600 (Kshs 60,000) bribe in a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) expose in June.
After the exposé, Marwa who was supposed to officiate in the on-going 2018 World Cup in Russia where he was to earn at least Ksh2.5 million pulled out of the World cup duties.
Apart from Marwa, CAF meted out various bans to a section of other football officials in the continent.
Others banned are; Boukari Ouedraogo, Referee (Burkina Faso), 5 years ban from all CAF related football activities
Denis Dembele, Referee (Cote d’Ivoire), 6 years ban from all CAF related football activities
Marius Tan, Assistant Referee (Cote d’Ivoire), 2 years ban from all CAF related football activities
Valere Gouho, Assistant Referee (Cote d’Ivoire), 2 years ban from all CAF related football activities
Coulibay Abou, Referee (Cote d’Ivoire), 2 years ban from all CAF related football activities
Jallow Ebrima, Assistant Referee (Gambia), 10 years ban from all CAF related football activities
Moriba Diakite, Assistant Referee (Mali), 5 years ban from all CAF related football activities and Demba Boubou, Assistant Referee (Mauritania), 5 years ban from all CAF related football activities.