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KPL clubs support new FIFA initiatives
 
At the KPL meeting on Saturday the clubs welcomed and strongly supported the new FIFA initiatives on improving good governance, financial transparency and stakeholder accountability in KFF.

In the FIFA letter to the KFF Chairman on April 22nd, FIFA expressed serious concerns about KFF management and media statements and emphasized that recent FIFA missions to Kenya "have proven that immediate improvements in the management style and durable changes of negative habits are more than ever highly needed".

FIFA officially copied the letter to Sports Minister Ochillo Ayacko, CAF General Secretary Mustapha Fahmy, South African PSL Chairman and SAFA Vice Chairman Dr. Irvin Khoza, KPL Managing Director Jack Oguda and FIFA Development Officers in Africa.

The KPL clubs share and fully endorse the key FIFA concerns and policies:

-  on the unilateral KFF changes in the agreed recruitment process for the KFF Secretary General;

-  on the unacceptably high KFF administrative costs and allowances;

-  on the failure of KFF to consult and involve clubs in decision-making;

-  on KFF attempts to change the pre-season agreement on relegation and promotion;

-  on the failure of KFF to apply the KFF and FIFA rules firmly and fairly; and

-  on the preparations for the FIFA organized seminar on May 2-4th with and for the 24 KPL clubs and the top officials of the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL).

Attached is the full text of the statement adopted by the majority of top Premier League clubs.

Contact
Jack Oguda
Managing Director
Kenyan Premier League Ltd (KPL)
Riadha House, Box 5350, Nairobi 00506, Kenya
Mobile 254-722-741411

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