Nairobi — Dialectical thinking, we have been taught, begins by understanding that most situations are complicated and often one wants two opposite things at the same time.

Everyone has a point of view that may be right or wrong. Dialectical thinking means, therefore, that we cannot ignore or pretend that other ways of doing things do not exist because they do and they might even be better than we first thought.

This is why Kenya football is in a mess.

There are those of us who see a manifestation of arrogance incompatible with the jurisprudence of sovereign states such as ours in the moves at the Federation of International Football Associations in regard to the challenges facing Kenya.

Then there are also those of us, who, having the benefit of years of retrospection, see this first group as one that seeks to justify its own interests behind a facade of local laws that have not, in the past, and certainly will not, in the future, provide the kind of leverage that can carry this country forward in its soccer development plans.

It is good to see we now have a unified league going. For as long as football is played a sizeable amount of the grumbling that has been heard should die down.

Questions, however, still remain as far as the administrative wing of the Kenya Football Federation is concerned.

With half the battle to full Fifa legitimacy won, following the resumption of the national league, those in football administration now need to ask themselves a few questions following the Fifa congress in Marrakech, Morocco.

The first: Why was Yemen banned? Was what Yemen had done to merit this ban any different from what we have been doing here? The next question would be why did our Minister for sport Ochillo Ayacko find it necessary to go to Zurich after Kenya had been indefinitely suspended in 2004?

Was it not to explain the Kenya government side in the action that had been taken on KFF officials because Fifa had stayed loyal with elected KFF officials Maina Kariuki, Mohammed Hatimy and Hussein Swaleh?

Whose idea was it that a normalisation committee be formed? What had happened to force it to be formed and most importantly why did Fifa insist that Kariuki's team be represented in it?

Was what Ayacko's predecessor Najib Balala had done any different from what previous sports minister Francis Nyenze had attempted to do?

Who allowed for the use of two KFF constitutions to be used at the December 29, 2004, KFF elections? Were not the powers of the Kenya National Sports Council removed from the new KFF constitution? So why are we, suddenly, seeing KNSC officers relishing every opportune moment of publicity, seemingly in full charge?

These are confusing questions, yet they must be asked. Failure to address them will see us lose ground in our fight against a Fifa ban.

KFF, as a society, is answerable to the Kenya Registrar of Societies. There is a "Form H" in the society laws which deals will the change of office bearers. The principals are supposed to be chairman, secretary and treasurer. In the new Fifa driven KFF constitution only the chairman can be elected. Is this not a contradiction in the principle functions of KFF as a society in our own laws?

Were we to presently ignore Fifa, as we seem to be suggesting going by the utterings heard within the KFF membership, how could we hope to get our players to play professional football abroad?

Who in the present KFF can sign the Fifa International Transfer Certificates, a requirement for any player joining professional soccer clubs everywhere else in the world? The signature on the now Sweden based Kenya goalkeeper Arnold Origi's ITC is Moni Wekesa's, a man the KFF do not recognise.

How ironical Marrakech must have proved for KFF acting chairman Mohammed Hatimy. Barely a year after enjoying Fifa confidence against the actions of Najib Balala he was himself turned away at the gates of the building hosting the Fifa congress in Marrakech while Wekesa enjoyed all the Fifa privileges.

In another soccer development, I wonder if the KFF realised the faux pas in their assertion that the Malawi game was inconsequential as Kenya cannot now qualify for either the World Cup or African Cup of Nations.

Now, I imagine, if I was a player being told my training was an exercise in futility, I would certainly look for other things to do. I may not speak for all players but I do believe those who play the game do so because they feel they are contributing something significant to society.

Kenya may not have qualified for the World Cup, but we equally take pride in the knowledge that Cameroon have never beaten us. The best they have done is draw here at home. We have even held the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Kenya fans certainly believe Harambee Stars are invincible on home soil. Let's not take that away from them.