NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Kenya were handed an indefinite ban from all international competition by the agency of football's world governing body FIFA.

NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Kenya were handed an indefinite ban from all international competition by the agency of football's world governing body FIFA.

The suspension, which ensues four days before their World goblet qualifier against Guinea, follows the Kenya government's refusal to reinstate the Kenyan Football Federation (KFF) which it dissolved in March.

The decision, taken through FIFA's Emergency Committee after the expiry of a June 1 deadline, was announced according to its General Secretary Urs Linsi in a epistle to suspended KFF chairman Maina Kariuki.

The sway dissolved the KFF over claims of corruption and replaced it with an interim Stakeholders Transition Committee (STC) ahead of modern elections which have yet to be held.

Despite the sanction Kenyan sports minister Najib Balala insisted he would stick to his timetable of restoring order to the sport, flat though FIFA rejects all guidance intervention in KFF affairs.

"It is a sad day for Kenya,"