The Confederation of African Football (CAF) management has kicked Kenyan national team out of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers that begin early June this year.
Although Kenya is currently under suspension which was imposed on the country by Fifa in February because of continued government interfererance with the sports sector have now been expelled from Group C that had Cameroon, Namibia and Burundi.
Kenya team was set to start her qualifying campaign away to Cameroon on June 4 but CAF’s decision means the group will have now three teams.
This is because the suspension slapped on the country by Fifa three months ago still remains in place. They have not met any of the conditions from Fifa and CAF, a source within the African governing body’s circles reported.
Kenya however have been given until two weeks to their first qualifying match against Cameroon to meet Fifa’s conditions for the suspension to be removed.
Fifa had asked the minister of sports Amina Mohammed to open Kandanda House and return officials of the disbanded Football Kenya Federation to work.
The Sports CS however has remained adamant that Kenya will “clean house first” before going back to Fifa for talks and re-admission.
This is because Amina had on November 11 last year disbanded FKF and installed a Caretaker Committee for six months to take over the running of the federation’s affairs.
The committee’s term ended last week on Wednesday, before Amina installed another committee made of members from the previous group to serve for other five weeks.
