Mariga out as FKF vice-president

The vote came out of a NEC sitting in Meru on November 7, 2026, according to Capital Sports, which described the gathering as stormy. Mariga walked in as FKF's sitting vice-president. He walked out without a seat on the committee at all.

Six other NEC members lost their positions in the same sitting, though the brief reporting available does not name them or lay out the specific charges that triggered the removals. What is clear is that this was not a routine reshuffle: expelling a sitting vice-president is as blunt as internal football politics gets, and doing it alongside six colleagues suggests a coordinated push rather than one isolated grievance.

A federation under strain

Mariga, a name still carrying weight from his playing days with Harambee Stars and in Serie A with Inter and Parma, had been one of the more recognisable faces inside FKF's leadership. His removal leaves a gap at the top table of Kenyan football's governing body at a moment when the federation can least afford instability.

The NEC is meant to be the steadying hand behind FKF's day-to-day running, from league administration to national team planning. Losing seven members in one meeting slows everything the committee touches, from how fast decisions get signed off to how the federation looks to sponsors and FIFA while clubs try to plan their own seasons around a leadership that just lost a third of its table.

No reasons given yet

Capital Sports' report does not detail why Mariga and the six others were expelled, who pushed the motion, or what process was used to remove a sitting vice-president mid-term. Those answers will shape how this story is read: as a legitimate governance correction, or as a power struggle that has simply found its winner for now.

FKF has not yet put out a statement addressing the removals in the material available. Until it does, or until more names and reasons surface from Meru, the only confirmed fact is the one that matters most to Kenyan football right now: the federation's vice-president is no longer in the room.