Sports News County Government to partner in the fight against doping

By Walter Kibet

Athletics Kenya (AK) together with Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has held a stakeholder workshop in Elgeyo-Marakwet County targeting to promote clean sportsmanship.

Athletics Integrity Unit Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Brett Clothier said the workshop is looking into matters anti-doping from the grassroots.

“We are here to meet athletes and coaches to share experiences and ideas on how to solve this doping problem in Kenya” Brett said.

The workshop hosted at Africa Inland Church (AIC) Iten was attended by more than 300 Athletes drawn from the county who expressed their concerns in their fight against the menace.

The athletics integrity unit hits north rift region on a fact-finding mission on the fight against doping in Kenya.

Kenyan government allocated 5 Million US dollars in the fight against doping after its Athletics Team faced myriad doping ban previous years.

A huge doping scale marked at 40 per cent was reported from Kenyan Athletes.

“This year ensure all government agencies are mobilized in this exercise including law enforcement, regulatory agencies and sportsmen to fight the vice” he added.

Athletics Kenya President Lt. Gen (Rtd) Jackson Tuwei who attended the workshop said sensitization exercise was to ensure athletes from Kenya run a clean sport to protect reputation of Kenya, a household name in Athletics.

“We need to educate our athletes in future because we noticed some phrases used are difficult for majority of them” Tuwei said.

Purity Koima, County Sports Executive Committee welcomed the initiative they will support it to reclaim good name of Iten athletics hub.

“As County Government we have agreed with all stakeholders to register all athletes, camps and coaches” Koima said.

She further promised to ensure collaborative efforts to ensure Kenya is removed from integrity radar it is currently in.

Bill, who is an athlete, said AK officials and other agencies should not be allowed to operate camps in order to promote integrity tests.

outside when their house staggered and collapsed.

Courtesy of the ever busy ants, all the wooden matter that supported her house caved in.

She said due to biting poverty they were unable to repair the structure right in time.

“My husband has been sickly and he is currently not in a position to repair the house, so we can’t manage to resume normal life” Targok said.

Among other children, Targok is a mother of a class eight pupil at nearby Rabai Primary school, and is worried that the loss of her single-roomed house will affect the candidate who is preparing to sit for KCPE exam.

‘’Am appealing to any Kenyan of goodwill to come to my aid because my economic situation is really bad’’ she said.

She looked distraught pointing at

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the collapsed structure saying the emergency stroke at a time when all her energies should be channeled towards securing the family’s next meal and finding school fees.

‘’I can stay without food for two or three days, but not the humiliating experience of living in the open like a wild animal’’ she said.

Targok said she can try recycling the old iron sheets to reconstruct the house but the cost of poles, roofing timber and labor remains a challenge.

Highly destructive ants are common in the Semi-Arid Marigat locality forcing majority families living in the area to construct their houses using expensive metals instead of vulnerable round wooden polls.

Any one touched and willing to restore this family’s dignity can reach Targok through her daughter Naomi Cheserem’s contact 0799395343.