The newly elected Football Kenya Federation (FKF) officials are facing a severe cash crunch that has seen employees go for two months without pay.
Furthermore, the federation has also discontinued giving food at lunchtime to its employees, worsening an already bad situation, insiders said.
According to two employees who requested not to be named, they are struggling to make ends meet and have appealed to the new officials to sort out the situation before things become worse.
“The last time we were paid a salary was in November last year. Since then we have not been paid now for two months,” said our source.
Further another employee said they received an email from the finance department just before the Christmas holidays that they will not be paid and will receive further communication on their pending salaries on January 6, something that has not happened.
“Instead two weeks ago, the free lunch that was being provided at the canteen at Kandanda’s House was discontinued without any explanation. Not only don’t we have money to go to work, we have to stay hungry the whole day. Something is affecting productivity,” revealed the source.
There was no immediate comment from FKF president Hussein Mohamed. His handlers promised to revert once they get his clearance.
Last week, members of the FKF electoral board secretariat issued a seven-day notice to the federation to clear their dues or face legal action.
The staff through their lawyers issued a demand notice to clear Sh600,440 owed to them for carrying out last year’s elections.
“We act for the members of the Electoral Board Secretariat, on whose instructions we write and address you as hereunder,” says part of the letter addressed to FKF Chief Executive Officer Patrick Korir.
The letter reveals that each of the staff menders were to be paid Sh8,307 for working overtime totaling Sh44,417.
It further adds that another Sh22,720 was to be paid to the staff members for working during the October 10 holidays.
They were also entitled to Sh10,000 transport allowance per month which they were paid only once.
“In summary, the Federation owes each of our clients Sh120,088 for the five of them.
“Despite our clients meticulously executing their mandate, resulting in a free and fair electoral exercise which ushered in the new regime at Kandanda House, you, on your part, have reneged on your obligation to pay them for services rendered.
Our clients have made several follow-ups and sought an audience with you over the matter but their efforts have attracted nothing but recalcitrance.”
“We are therefore demanding immediate payment to us of the said sum of Sh600,440 for onward transmission to our clients together with our debt collection charged of Sh75,000 within seven days failure to we shall dutifully institute legal proceedings against the Federation for the recovery of the same at your risk,” concludes the letter.
Mohammed and his team are new in office and they came in with high hopes of changing the operations at the federation.
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