The government has put on notice individuals and organizations suspected to be involved in the doping menace.This follows a crisis meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta,Sports CS Hassan Wario and other Sports stakeholders.
As an effort geared towards averting an imminent crisis ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Kenya has decided to engage with WADA to find why the anti-doping act doesn’t fit the bill.
To this end President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a strong delegation to Canada to find out the gaps contained in the act. The delegation is led by Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed and her sports counterpart Hassan Wario.
At the same time the government has suspended the anti-doping agency of Kenya until WADA is satisfied with its compliance.Kenya was on Thursday ruled to be in breach of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules.
The decision has threatened to lock out the country’s athletes from the upcoming Olympics set to be held in rio Brazil.It also came hot on the heels of the passage of an anti-dopping bill that was rushed through parliament and ascented to by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
WADA had given Kenya until May to enact the anti-doping law or be declared non-compliant.
However,International Association of Athletics Federations has stated that it won’t ban Kenya from the 2016 Rio Olympics.IAAF says Kenya will remain on doping ‘monitoring list’ until the end of this year.