Football Kenya Federation (FKF) top organ has asked its President Hussein Mohammed to step aside following allegations of corruption over the Sh42million insurance scandal.
Apart from Mohammed, National Executive Committee (NEC) member Abdalla Yussuf and Acting Secretary General Dennis Gacheru have also been asked to step aside.
Former international Macdonald Mariga who is currently the Vice President takes over in an acting capacity.
The Federation’s Executive Committee meeting on Friday took the drastic action following allegations that Sh42million was paid to a phantom company for insurance of last year’s Africa Nations Championship (CHAN).
According to resolutions signed by nine NEC members, it has come to their attention that serious breaches of the FKF constitution have been committed by the three.
“This include financial impropriety, misappropriation of public funds including alleged theft of approximately Sh42million from CHAN bank accounts,” said part of the resolutions.
The members also cited serious breaches of the public procurement and asset disposal act 2015 including noncompetitive procurement of goods and services.
The meeting asked Mariga to urgently convene an emergency NEC meeting.
“Pending any other directive and or resolution from Football Kenya Federation National Executive Committee all bank accounts belonging to FKF where Hussein Mohammed is a signatory should be frozen,” said the resolution.
Those who signed the resolution were, Macdonald Mariga (Vice President), Dan Shikanda (Nairobi), Robert Macharia (Central), Peter Kamau Chege (North Rift), Bernard Lagat (North Rift), Caleb Amwayi (Western), Kerubo Momanyi (Women reprsentative), Collins Opiyo (Nyanza), Gabriel Mgendi (Coast).
More surprising is the fact that the company Riskwell Insurance Brokers Limited was registered just two months before being contracted and paid millions of shillings with no evidence that they provided the cover.
Provision of the civil liability cover worth $30million (Approximatley Sh3.8billion) was a key requirement by the Confederation of African of Football (CAF) for the three Countries-Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in hosting the CHAN tournament.
On July 17, 2025, now suspended FKF Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Harold Ndege wrote a letter to his counterpart in the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for CHAN detailing the steps the federation had made in acquiring the cover.
Myke Rabar held the position at the time.
In the letter Ndege pointed out that FKF had requested and received a quotation from three companies to provide cover-General Civil Liability limit of Sh3.8billion as well as employee related covers for both CAF and LOC during the tournament and medical cover for both CAF and LOC staff during the tournament.
According to Ndege’s letter, the three companies that quoted to provide the requested service were Takaful Insurance, Old Mutual and Britam with the latter quoting a premium of $226,013 (Sh29,155,677).
However, without any explanation, FKF paid out $328,735 (Sh42,406,815) to Riskwell Insurance Brokers.
The money was paid out on August 4, 2025 under the instructions of FKF President Hussein Mohammed from an Ecobank Account to Riskwell’s account at First Community Bank.
Riskwell according to documents in our passion was registered on June 25,2025 with three directors Mohamud Yarrow Ibrahim, Nyairo Tom Nyairo and Abdullahi Mohamud Sheikh.
Ibrahim and Nyairo hold 300 shares each while Sheikh is the majority shareholder with 400 shares.
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