Kenya football authorities say they want Fifa's help to restructure the country's Premier League in a bid to comply with the governing body's conditions for lifting a suspension. Fifa banned the east African country from international competition on Wednesday for failing to respect signed agreements and for recurrent problems in their federation. Fifa wants Kenya Premier League Limited (KPL) to run a league featuring 18 clubs but the Kenya Football Federation (KFF) has set up a company, KFF PL, to run a 20-team league.
The solution is a merger of the two organisations and Kenyan officials want Fifa to help resolve any differences. The KFF wants more executive power, including the right to appoint a chief executive and chairman plus 40 percent control. "But in pursuit of the said compliance, some provisions of the memorandum and articles of KPL appeared to contradict the Fifa statutes.
"Under this apparent legal complexity, the committee resolved to forward the sets of documents to FIFA for perusal and guidance," he said. The KFF meeting was held at a secret venue in Nairobi after rumours spread that delegates from the provinces, gearing up for the KFF's special general meeting on Saturday, intended to storm it and put their demands on the table.
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