NAIROBI, Kenya, November 7, 2026 – Football Kenya Federation’s (FKF) special general meeting (SGM) has been thrown into disarray following a standoff between different factions at the Three Steers Hotel in Meru on Saturday morning.
Teargas smoke filled with the venue for the meeting as police officers from the Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) became involved in the tense situation amid confrontation with some of the participants on ground.
Videos circulating on social media show the extent of the standoff on the ground, with FKF vice president MacDonald Mariga alighting from a police Landcruiser, accompanied by a contingent of RDU officers.
Another one of the videos depict the officers engaged in confrontations with some of those who were already at the meeting hall before the room suddenly erupts in smoke, in what is believed to a be a teargas canister.
In a statement, FKF accused RDU officers of discharging the canister and disrupting a constitutionally convened process.
“The FKF Special General Meeting (SGM) is yet to commence following an incident in which officers from the Police Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) moved into the meeting venue and discharged teargas into the meeting room, where delegates were seated awaiting the start of proceedings,” the federation said.
It added: “The incident has disrupted a constitutional process convened by members of the FKF General Assembly in exercise of their mandate under the FKF Constitution.”
The SGM was set to discuss the conduct of Mariga and six other members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), following months of tense relations between the former Harambee Stars midfielder and his boss, Hussein Mohammed.
The friction between the two blew into the open in April this year when Mariga and eight other members of the NEC voted to suspend Hussein for his alleged role in a Ksh 42.6 million insurance scandal concerning coverage of last year’s Africa Nations Championships (CHAN).
The firm at the centre of the controversy, Riskwell Insurance Brokers, was allegedly given the contract to provide insurance cover for teams and officials at the continental showpiece, even though it did not have a brokerage license from the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA).
Mariga was temporarily installed as FKF supremo as subsequent court battles and intervention from Fifa and Confederation of African Football (CAF) reinstated Hussein.
Since then, operations at Kandanda House have been anything but smooth and cordial.
