FKF president Nick Mwendwa. [Photo/soka.co.ke]
Football delegates start trickling in Mombasa today ahead of Saturday’s crucial Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Annual General Meeting set to take place at Reef Hotel. This will be the second AGM for the current regime but seen as the most crucial one as a raft of changes have been lined-up to be changed in the constitution.
While a section of football stakeholders feel that the recommended changes are self-centered, federation president Nick Mwendwa believes the changes are long overdue and would steer the country’s most famous sport to greater heights.
One of the contentious recommendations is to introduce a term limit of maximum three years, which has been met with mixed reactions. “We want to introduce a term limit because at the moment, the current federation’s constitution which I was elected under, doesn’t have a term limit.
Someone can be an official forever. So that is one of the things we are trying to change and it should not mean that I’m doing so for me to lead the federation for three terms,” said Mwendwa.
He added: “After all, this amended constitution will take effect during the next federation elections in 2020.” Another recommendation is the plan to have candidates vying for the president’s position pick his or her running-mate to be elected in the same way as the presidential and gubernatorial elections and also have the chairman of the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) elected to serve a four-year term unlike now.
Traditionally, the KPL chairman’s position has been automatically set aside for the boss of the team that wins the league and it has been lasting for one year unless the same team retains the title.
He added: “For the first time also, the KPL chairman will be voted at the general assembly to serve a four-year term and he or she would be part of the federation’s NEC which will also have one representative from the National Super League, one female member, nine regional members and two co-opted members.”