Sambili to explain Hey’s Sh1.7m pay





By NATION Team Posted Wednesday, June 10 2009 at 22:30

The Kenya Government has two weeks to explain why national soccer coach Antoine Hey is earning a monthly salary of Sh1.7 million, approximately US $ 23.000 despite the team’s poor run in the on-going World Cup cum Africa Nations Cup qualifiers.

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Speaker Kenneth Marende directed that Sports Minister Prof Hellen Sambili makes a ministerial statement in Parliament on June 24 explaining whether it was the German government or the Kenya government which was footing the coach’s hefty salary.

This was after Ababu Namwamba (Budalangi, ODM) sought a statement on why the coach was receiving such a huge salary when the team’s performance was poor.

Harambee Stars is currently at the bottom of Group B with no point after losing its first two matches, 1-2 to Tunisia and 0-3 to Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Sunday.

Mr Namwamba demanded that the minister explains how the government plans to meet the coach’s huge wage bill in the event that he was not being paid by the German government as previously thought. He criticised the team’s performance saying it did not justify the coach’s huge pay.

He also asked the minister to justify why the taxpayer should continue shouldering the tactician’s huge pay when we could easily employ a qualified local coach at a much lower salary. Responding, deputy PM Musalia Mudavadi promised to have the statement tabled in parliament on June 24.