The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Caretaker Committee has distanced itself from the ‘inflated’ budget doing rounds on social media and reiterated that the league will be back in action next weekend after a meeting with stake holders.A budget purportedly from the Caretaker Committee took social media by a storm on Friday with Kenyans angered by the inflated costs most notably monies allocated to airtime for the committee members.FKF Caretaker Committee 6 month budget Kshs. 850mIt’s our time to eatPrinter 800,000Macbook 300,000Desktop 150,000Na kathalikaFrom Mwendwa to legit bisna pic.twitter.com/tTYzm4b8wD— Isaac Koech (@ISAACKKOECH) November 19, 2021 Speaking at a press conference at the Kenya National Library on Saturday afternoon, the head of Secretariat Linda Oguttu revealed that the budget was false as they are yet to draft a budget.”We have seen reports on social media of a budget that is attributed to this particular committee, we are still at the work plan stage where we are trying to figure out how we will do this work in six months, you cannot have a budget before you finish the work plan so in essence what we are saying it the budget that you seeing on social media being attributed to the committee is not ours,””There is also reports that one of the secretariat members has been de-gazetted, as long as long as you have not seen the de-gazettement notice, treat that as rumors, I still have my full secretariat intact,” said Oguttu.Cover-up? Herbert Mwachiro has been degazetted from the Kenya FA (FKF) Caretaker Committee by the Sports Minister @AMB_A_Mohammed & PS @JoeOkudo for accidentally posting their provisional and grossly-exaggerated budget on his high school WhatsApp group. pic.twitter.com/TunSWKoBuM— Francis Gaitho (@FrancisGaitho) November 19, 2021 Ali Amour who is part of the Caretaker Committee Secretariat reiterated that the league is still on course to resume next week when the ban on top three tiers of men’s football expires and hinted that Kenyan Premier League (KPL) might be tasked with governing the top tier.”Our target is by next week, the league should be starting, we are looking to have meetings with the stakeholders to have a synchronized approach and putting everything in order,””We are still in the discussion stage, we will talk with KPL which is a league entity and we will sit down with them to have a good approach of the league with the right order,” said Amour.He added that they are set to meet with club chairmen in the coming week to reach a consensus and agree on the smooth running of the league.Amour added that the few National Super League (NSL) matches should be treated as friendlies with FKF continuing with the league despite the ban from the Caretaker Committee.
