The musical chairs in the national football team Harambee Stars are nothing new but what is causing great physical and mental anguish is the rate at which the team’s trainers are crying foul over a default to settle their dues.

For the past few years, Kenyan football has been in the news for all the wrong reasons after a litany of Harambee Stars coaches and even clubs petitioned world body Fifa due to persistent default by their employers to pay them their wages and other perks.

For starters, Harambee Stars head coach Engin Firat is owed more than nine months’ salary and the Ministry of Sports spearheaded by Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba should take the flak for shirking its duties of paying the expatriate trainer to avoid repeating previous mistakes and attracting sanctions.

It has now come to the realisation that the government won’t learn and seemingly can’t learn from its relish of hearing no evil nor seeing any evil in the apathy directed to former Stars trainers who are merely seeking what is rightfully owed to them.

And morally right, so to speak, these coaches need not be taken in circles as this will in the long run continue tainting Kenya’s image in the revered sport. It’s absurd that AFC Leopards has joined this list of shame by failing to remit a total of Sh20 million owed to the club’s former trainer Patrick Aussems while he was still at the job, he has, however, been replaced by a local hand in Tom Juma.

As for now, Leopards should not take Aussems’ likelihood to report the club to Fifa with a pinch since this will ultimately mean the club being relegated to the second-tier Nationwide League.

Let Ingwe be told in no uncertain terms that they shall be in hot soup should they fail to meet the part of their bargain in regards to the salary arrears owed to the former Simba Sports Club of Tanzania trainer. But the biggest buck certainly stops with the government and it’s a sad epitaph that Ababu could issue a promise that Firat would be paid before a Four-Nation tournament involving Stars Seychelles only to renege on the same.

Stars are currently set to feature in a series of friendly matches in Qatar and such disturbing shenanigans will not help the country’s course if we continue giving national team and club coaches unfair treatment