Speaking at a church
event attended by the Head of State in Elgeyo Marakwet yesterday, National
Assembly Deputy Speaker Gladys Boss Shollei urged Ruto to transfer the
Anti-doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) from Namwamba’s Sports Ministry to Health.
Shollei argued that
the agency, which is domiciled at the CS Ababu Namwamba-led Ministry, cannot be
expected to oversight the same Ministry.
Instead, she explained
that ADAK could do a better job overseeing the Sports Ministry while under CS
Susan Nakhumicha's Health Ministry.
Boss further noted
that the change would get the country out of the radar of World Athletics, which
has set its sights on Kenya over the prevalence of doping cases within the
country.
She further accused
outsiders of importing doping drugs and giving them to athletes training at
numerous camps in Iten, a situation she pleaded with the Head of State to stamp
out.
"We have training
camps here but rogue dealers come in from elsewhere with drugs which they give
to our athletes. When it comes to doping, the security teams in this country
know about it. Recently, we lost four athletes," stated Boss.
"The most
important thing you can help Iten with is ensuring that Anti-Doping Agency
Kenya is moved from the Sports Ministry to the Ministry of Health because ADAK
cannot oversight the Sports Ministry yet it is being domiciled under the same
Ministry. That is why Kenya is being blacklisted as a doping area."
The agency was formed
to advise the Government on all relevant matters relating to anti-doping,
ensure the enforcement of the regulations made by the Agency and the World
Anti-Doping Agency as well as undertake doping control.
In the last year
alone, several athletes from Kenya received doping bans spanning varied timespans.
The Kenyan DAILY POST.
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