Sports Principal Secretary Joe Okudo has confirmed that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has been given the green light to investigate the Football Kenya Federation and its president Nick Mwendwa on how a sum of Ksh. 244.6 million was used.
The government gave the federation the aforementioned money to prepare for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations that was held in Egypt, where the Harambee Stars performed were eliminated in the group stage.
There are also questions on how the under-pressure head used Ksh. 11 million from the aforementioned amount, as well as the sum of Ksh 57 million which was allegedly used in allowances.
"The Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Sports and Heritage has also subsequently written to the Registrar of Sports to undertake a thorough financial audit of all the accounts of the Football Kenya Federation," Okudo told the MPs on Tuesday as quoted by the Business Daily.
"We have also engaged and secured the backing of the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) in our investigations. Federations have been hiding behind the threat of ban for government interference in sports federations.
