Kenya's Afcon dream is under threat as FKF officials fight

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FKF president Hussein Mohammed when he appeared before the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism Committee at Bunge Tower, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

There is an old proverb that says when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. But in Kenya's unfolding football catastrophe, the grass is not an abstraction. The grass is 40 million football fans who have waited their entire lives for this moment.

The grass is a generation of young Kenyans who deserve to watch the continent's finest footballers play on home soil. The grass is the street boy in Mathare who has never owned a pair of boots but knows every Afcon winner since 1957. The grass is the grandmother in Kisumu who does not follow football but will sit before a television in June 2027 because Kenya is hosting, and that means something.

That is the stake. That is what is being gambled with. And that is what makes the implosion at Football Kenya Federation not merely a governance scandal but a national betrayal in slow motion.