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Kenya: Cricket - CK Urged to Hold Elections
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The Nation (Nairobi)
25 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008
Richard Mwangi
Nairobi
Cricket Kenya has been asked to hold elections, which are almost a year overdue.
According to an agreement brokered by the International Cricket Council, which ushered Cricket Kenya in 2005, elections were supposed to have been held either 60 days after the 2007 cricket World Cup or by May 31, 2007.
Sharad Ghai, the former chairman of the defunct Kenya Cricket Association, said Cricket Kenya was in breach of the agreement by failing to hold elections.
"CK should not use the delay in the amendments of the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association's constitution as an excuse for delaying the elections because they would not affect the number of delegates allocated to the province," said Ghai.
The CK chairman, Samir Inamdar, however, insisted that problems in the Nairobi association had led to the delay in holding the elections.
"We agreed to defer the elections last year on the request of NPCA to allow it get its house in order," said Inamdar. "The CK full council meeting decided not to hold elections until NPCA has had a chance to sort out its own affairs."
Inamdar said election notices had already been sent out, but NPCA had not passed their accounts for three years.
"The NPCA have asked us for time but we are not going to wait them for ever," he said.
Inamdar said his predecessor had asked the NPCA to amend their constitution to be in line with that of CK during the negotiated settlement led by Percy Sonn, who was the then International Cricket Council vice-president.
Number of clubs
The NPCA chairman, Salim Dhanji, is also on record saying the constitution was to be changed. Dhanji has since moved to Australia.
On the issue of the disaffiliation of the Central provincial body, Inamdar said its chairman did not attend a single meeting for two years.
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He said Central were supposed to show the number of clubs affiliated to the association because, according to the CK constitution, a provincial body must have more than three clubs.
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