The local police announced on Friday that they had temporarily arrested Kenya federation chief Nick Mwendwa The entire federation leadership had already been removed on Thursday.
Since the removal of the federation’s leadership by Sports Minister Amina Mohamed, an interim committee has been in charge of the Kenya Football Federation (FKF). This committee, in cooperation with the law enforcement agencies, is to conduct further investigations to determine the exact extent of the financial irregularities.
In the course of these investigations, the previous head of the federation, Mwendwa, was taken into custody only one day later. “He has been arrested and is being interrogated “, commented the investigating police director George Kinoti.
The reason for the removal and arrest was a government investigation which revealed that government subsidies and sponsorship money had been misappropriated in the association. Mohamed had announced this in the course of the removal on Thursday.
