The Departmental Committee on Sports said on Friday that it will investigate key issues threatening to collapse the Kenya Rugby Union board.
Among them is the claim that the
Union board did
not pay players their allowances during the Paris Sevens earlier this month.
"I want to assure Kenyans, that we are committed to getting to the bottom of this matter,"
Chairperson
Victor Munyaka said in a statement on Friday.
Munyaka said they will deal with the issue in a way that does not jeopardize the participation of the Kenya Sevens Rugby Teams in the forthcoming World Cup in the USA in July 2018.
He noted that the committee
will engage
the various stakeholders including players as soon as possible to solve the issues at hand.
On Thursday, the Kenya Rugby Union board fired Sevens head coach
Innocent Simiyu.
Sources told the Star that Simiyu
took responsibility for players who refused to display the Brand Kenya sponsorship logo during a game in Paris two weeks ago.
This was after Tourism CS Najib Balala cancelled a Sh20
million sponsorship deal between Brand Kenya and the Kenya Rugby Union.
“Kenya Tourism Board is using the athletes to promote and market destinations. What they did was very embarrassing. I am not happy about it," he said.
He went on to say: “How can a Kenyan go to an international activity and cover Brand Kenya? How, even if you have a problem with your organisation?
“That was not Brookside or Tusker, or Safaricom. It was Make It Kenya! That name there is your country's, your motherland which made you what you are,” the Minister said at a Mombasa Hotel during the Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers symposium.
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