The Kenyan government is prepared to risk a FIFA ban by taking over the administration of football in the East African nation. FIFA and the Kenyan authorities have had a long-running battle over who should run football in the country. But Sports Minister Otuoma Nyongesa is still not satisfied with the way the sport is run in Kenya. "We have told FIFA that if they can't clean up our football, we'll have to do it ourselves".

Such action could prompt a FIFA ban since football's world governing body effectively outlaws any governmental interference in the running of a country's football federation.

"Intervention is not the same as interference," Nyongesa argued. "We cannot have federations running without any sort of transparency or accountability to the public. "You cannot be responsible for an organisation for ten years and want to (retain the status quo) even though you don't produce results," he added.

The Kenyan government has been embroiled in an argument with FIFA for many years over the leadership of the country's football. This led to a three-month suspension of the Kenyan Football Federation (KFF) in 2004 after FIFA accused the government of interference. In 2006, FIFA barred the KFF again for failing to implement signed agreements to resolve the recurrent problems within the federation.