Wrangles threaten Noc-K constitution review talks
What you need to know:
- The talks were aimed at arriving at a process to review Noc-K constitution, culminating in an election by December 31.
- A joint committee overseeing the process on Friday warned that some Noc-K officials, who are under investigation over mismanagement of Team Kenya for Rio Olympics, are trying to scuttle the process that was ordered by the International Olympics Committee (IOC).
- It has emerged that noc-k secretary general Francis Paul, in a letter dated October 17 to its affiliates and copied to IOC, affirmed that only Nock-K President Kipchoge Keino can call for an Extra Ordinary General Assembly to set the date for Noc-K elections.
Wrangles are threatening to scuttle talks aimed at reviewing the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Noc-K) Constitution as ordered by the International Olympics Committee.
The talks were aimed at arriving at a process to review Noc-K constitution, culminating in an election by December 31.
A joint committee overseeing the process on Friday warned that some Noc-K officials, who are under investigation over mismanagement of Team Kenya for Rio Olympics, are trying to scuttle the process that was ordered by the International Olympics Committee (IOC).
It has emerged that noc-k secretary general Francis Paul, in a letter dated October 17 to its affiliates and copied to IOC, affirmed that only Noc-K President Kipchoge Keino can call for an Extra Ordinary General Assembly to set the date for Nock-K elections.
RESOLUTIONS
Paul disregarded resolutions arrived at by a joint committee that called for a stakeholder meeting on October 27 this year to be followed a day later by the Extra Ordinary General Assembly.
Paul went ahead to appoint a separate committee headed by Ben Ekumbo to oversee the constitutional review process before calling for an Extra Ordinary General Assembly.
“Nock-K under its current President Kipchoge Keino will convene the Extra Ordinary General Assembly in strict with the Constitution of NOCK and the Olympic Charter,” said Paul in the letter.
At a press conference on Friday, some of the joint committee members said that Paul was working with some Noc-K officials scuttle the planned stakeholder meeting and the Extra Ordinary Assembly so that a proposed new constitution is not adopted and validated.
It’s at the Ordinary Assembly that a date for NOCK election would be set, with the independent electoral board also being appointed to oversee Noc-K elections.
A member of the joint-committee, Andrew Mudibo, said that two meetings chaired by officials from Noc-K came up with the Extra Ordinary General Assembly date as per the tripartite meeting on September 16 at IOC headquarters in Lausanne.
The joint committee is a merger of the Noc-K interim committee that was appointed on September 10, and some members of the NOCK executive.
The joint committee was put in place to jumpstart the constitution reviewed ordered by IOC following the meeting in Lausanne. The meeting was attended by among others sports cabinet secretary Hassan Wario.
Mudibo, who was the Noc-k interim committee secretary, said they have been forced to write to IOC and the minister of sports after Noc-k secretary general Francis Paul issued what he said were directive contrary to to resolutions arrived at in Lausanne
