I began investigating this matter at the close of the African Nations Championship 2024, driven by the instinct of a journalist and the duty of a citizen who understands that whistleblowing in this environment carries real risk, yet what has emerged is too grave to ignore and too consequential to be softened.
At the centre of it all is the leadership of Football Kenya Federation under Mr Hussein Mohamed, where credible documentation points to a procurement process for tournament insurance valued at approximately KES 200,000,000 that was routed through Riskwell Insurance Brokers Limited, an entity incorporated barely forty days earlier on 25 June 2025, lacking licensing from the Insurance Regulatory Authority and absent from the register of the Association of Insurance Brokers of Kenya, yet still receiving USD 328,735, about KES 42,755,000, in brokerage fees wired on 4 August 2025 into its account at First Community Bank Limited, leaving hanging the most critical question of whether any valid insurance cover was ever placed for CHAN 2024 under the watch of Hussein Mohamed.
If that answer is no, then this is no longer a clerical issue but a dangerous exposure where a continental tournament may have been staged without insurance, placing players, officials, fans and the public at risk, and that alone elevates the matter from internal federation business to a national concern demanding urgent scrutiny of Hussein Mohamed’s leadership.
Kenyan courts have long treated FKF as a quasi public body, funded partly by taxpayers and acting in Kenya’s name, meaning Hussein Mohamed carries a fiduciary duty to the public, a duty grounded in the Constitution under Articles 26 and 28 on the right to life and dignity, and Articles 73 and 232 on accountability and responsible use of public resources, standards that stand in direct tension with opaque financial flows and the use of unlicensed intermediaries in a transaction of this scale.
Now place Hussein Mohamed’s situation against Kenya’s preparations to host the Africa Cup of Nations 2027 under the Confederation of African Football, where credibility is everything, because sports tourism runs on trust and once doubt creeps in, investors, sponsors and partners step back, especially when hosting funds have already been committed and sit in accounts tied to the same leadership now under a cloud.
This is why the allegations surrounding Hussein Mohamed cannot be treated casually or allowed to drift, because the risk is not just reputational but financial and potentially legal, and failure to act decisively would signal institutional weakness at a time Kenya needs confidence and clarity.
In moments like this, leadership is measured by restraint, and the continued stay in office of Hussein Mohamed only complicates investigations and erodes public trust, while stepping aside would protect both the process and the institution.
I have since formally written to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and supplied all the evidence gathered in the course of my journalistic work to enable a thorough forensic investigation, and I now call upon the FKF National Executive Council to convene an urgent sitting, confront the seriousness of these allegations, and compel Hussein Mohamed to step aside so that the truth can be established without fear, favour, or interference.
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