Football Kenya Federation (FKF ) National Executive Committee has banned former president Sam Nyamweya for the next one decade.
Nyamweya has been barred from all football-related activities.
Nyamweya is accused of taking football matters to an ordinary court and fraudulently withdrawing Ksh. 2.5 million from FKF accounts.
The ban comes one month after the former president lodged a formal court case against FKF and Sports Disputes Tribunal over what was the league’s stand-off.
In a quick rejoinder, Nyamweya dismissed the ten-year ban stating that it was illegal.
“The meeting purporting to have suspended me was convened “on 21st of March 2016”, which is more than one year ago and just over a month following my retirement from football and handing over to my successor, Mr. Nick Mwendwa. Further evidence of the malice, bad faith and preposterous intentions of the decision is contained in their taking more than one year to convey the same to me but the obvious inference from this is that the decision was premeditated because the matter being referred to is a case I filed in 2017.
“Having retired from football activities in the full glare of cameras before the whole world, there is no possibility that I am still a member of FKF and it is therefore misguided of the FKF NEC to purport to suspend an individual who is not on their roll of members.”
"It is laughable that FKF can suggest that I withdrew any money from their accounts because I have never done it and if I did then the natural course of action is well known. Accordingly, I would be moving with speed to sue for character assassination and damages," part of Nyamweya's response read.