The Football Kenya Federation Caretaker Committee has affirmed that they are totally in charge of all football activities despite the embattled FKF president Nick Mwendwa filing a petition at the High Court on Wednesday.Mwendwa, who was re-arrested on Friday afternoon moved to the High Court seeking to halt the operation of the Caretaker Committee after the file to the miscellaneous application to detain him further by the DCI was thrown out.The Kenyatta FA Caretaker Committee have released a statement confirming that Nick Mwendwa have filed a petition at the Nairobi High Court challenging their legality and seeking interim orders to halt their operations, orders which were not granted. pic.twitter.com/XLJ75w8EfF— Francis Gaitho (@FrancisGaitho) November 26, 2021 Responding to the petition, the Chairman of the Committee Rtd Justice Aaron Ringera revealed that they had been served with the same and the matter came up for hearing on Thursday but the High Court denied the embattled president the interim orders he was seeking.”The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Caretaker Committee wishes to inform our stakeholders that we were on 24th November 2021 served with a petition filed in the High Court as Case No E473 of 2021: Nick Mwendwa and Others versus Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage and Others,”Court declined to issue orders barring Caretaker Committee from running football in Kenya; an attempt by graft suspects to halt things failed in this first shot… ruling to be delivered on Dec 16. pic.twitter.com/NPe5FlH42f— Tony Anelka (@tonyanelka) November 26, 2021 “The matter came up for hearing before the High Court yesterday 25th November 2021 for an application by the petitioners to interalia stop the operation of the FKF Caretaker Committee. The High Court did not grant any interim orders. A ruling on this matter will be delivered by the High Court on 16th December 2021,””We, therefore, wish to clarify that the FKF Caretaker Committee remains in charge of all football activities and is working round the clock towards the resumption of the various Leagues,” the communique from the Committee read.Ringera and his team have swung into action, holding meetings with the clubs’ representatives for teams in the top tier league and the National Super League to forge the way forward on how they will approach league resumption for the two leagues.FKFPL resumption pushed back once againAlready, they have agreed to have the top-tier and the NSL resume on December 4, 2021, all following the fixtures initially set by FKF.
