In summary
- Kenya has been in the top category on the World Anti-Doping Agency watch list for seven years threatening the country of a ban by the World Athletics governing body
- Fifty-five Kenyan athletes are currently banned and eight provisionally suspended, according to the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)
Cabinet secretary for Sports, Youth, Arts and culture Hon. Ababu Namwamba has said that the Government will invest more Ksh 0.6 Billion, in the next five years to fight doping.
Speaking while receiving doping report from an Anti- Doping Steering Committee in Nairobi Ababu, said that the Government will adopt a zero tolerance policy on the scourge of doping.
“We will finance fight against doping with five million dollars per year and endorse funds to curb the menace,” he said.
“We have declared full support as a government to fight and win the war of doping. Hence we’ve made the strategic position to collaborate with our international partners, he added.
Kenya has been in the top category on the World Anti-Doping Agency watch list for seven years threatening the country of a ban by the World Athletics governing body.
Fifty-five Kenyan athletes are currently banned and eight provisionally suspended, according to the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), an independent body formed by World Athletics to combat doping in the sport.
Among the Kenyans caught using banned substances are 2021 Boston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei and compatriot Betty Wilson Lempus, who were provisionally suspended last month for using triamcinolone acetonide.
Kenya’s doping problems have been documented for at least a decade and its national anti-doping programme, which was shown to be ineffective and was accused of being corrupt, was given a major overhaul in 2016 when the new Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) was established.
