Resign, Sports CS Wario tells embattled AK leadership
Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Arts & Culture Dr Hassan Wario during a past press briefing. Wario has told Athletics Kenya top brass to resign over the spate of doping cases in the country. PHOTO | FILE |
What you need to know:
- Terming Rita Jeptoo’s doping case as disgraceful, Wario said there was no glamour in cheating and doping and wondered why the top AK officials were still in office.
- Wario said that AK refused to cooperate when their officials were summoned by the Anti-Doping Task Force headed by Moni Wekesa that was constituted by the government.
Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario has told Athletics Kenya top brass to resign over the spate of doping cases in the country.
At the same time, he urged sponsors to review their partnerships with rogue and corrupt federations as he put Football Kenya Federation and Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) on notice alongside the Sports Registrar for slow work.
Terming Rita Jeptoo’s doping case as disgraceful, Wario said there was no glamour in cheating and doping and wondered why the top AK officials were still in office.
Wario, who also accused AK of shielding rogue managers and agents involved in doping, said time was running out for AK officials.
“I was in Boston as we cheered Jeptoo to victory but I was gutted when I heard the news that she had doped,” Wario said. “People like Jeptoo have now joined the other side of disgraced athletes like Marion Jones, and they belong to the hall of shame and not hall of fame.”
Wario, who was speaking during the 2014 Sports Personality of the Year Awards (Soya) Gala on Friday evening said: “We must come out strongly as Kenyans and disassociate ourselves from people who want to spoil our sport by doping. Someone must take the blame since when all this was happening AK was quiet and not talking about it.”
Wario said that AK refused to cooperate when their officials were summoned by the Anti-Doping Task Force headed by Moni Wekesa that was constituted by the government.
“We don’t register managers and agents. It’s AK that gives us guidance and we now have two factions there and it’s now a whole comedy of errors,” said Wario adding that he will not allow people who have been in sports federation for 40 years to stand in the way of meaningful change.
