Fifa orders audit of Kenya
BBC Sport footballFifa suspended the Kenya from international play on October 24
Fifa has ordered an independent audit of Kenya's chaos-ridden and suspended football federation.
The audit, to be conducted by the international accounting firm KPMG, is designed to determine how the Kenya Football Federation (KFF) has used money given to it by Fifa.
"Spot checks on the way funds have been used are ... systematically carried out at selected member associations," a letter from the game's governing body said.
"Your member association has been selected to be checked for 2006."
The audit order is the latest in a series of blows to Kenyan football, which Fifa indefinitely suspended from international play on October 24 and which has been wracked by problems for the past two years.
After the suspension, due to the inability of the KFF to meet Fifa demands for reform, the Kenyan government sacked the federation's governing board and replaced it with a caretaker committee that Fifa has refused to recognize.
The audit order letter, signed by Fifa deputy General Secretary Michael Schallhart, was addressed to Mohammed Hatimy, the vice president on the KFF board dissolved by the government.
It advised the KFF that it would soon be contacted by KPMG to arrange a date for the audit and discuss additional details.
Last week, Fifa rejected the formation of the caretaker committee as a violation of rules barring government interference in the sport and called for a "legal opinion" on the dissolution of the KFF.
At the same time, it vetoed Kenya's referee nominations for international matches, citing alleged corruption in the selection process that it said must be investigated.
Kenyan football has been plagued by problems in recent years and last month's Fifa suspension was its second in two years.
It was first suspended in 2004 for three months over government interference.
The suspension, due mainly to the failure of the KFF to merge two rival premier leagues, the KFF and KPL, has already led to Kenya's disqualification from a regional tournament later this month in Ethiopia.
Recent problems have included deadly fan violence, physical attacks on rival KFF officials, a match-fixing allegation and clashes over the formation of the KPL to run Kenyan football on a professional basis.
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