No end in sight for swimming wrangles despite World Aquatics intervention
Twalib Ahmed Hamza, 18, from Sadik International School Mombasa on his way to winning the boys' 50m butterfly during the Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association (KSSSA) Coast Region Swimming Championship at Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa on April 1, 2023.
World Aquatics could now consider expelling Kenya that is under suspension entirely if the elections organised by its Stabilisation Committee on July 8, this year, are not held as scheduled
This is after some swimming stakeholders Margaret Ndung’u Mwasha and Conrad Dermot Biltcliffe Thorpe through their lawyer, Charles Kanjama, stopped the elections until a case they still have at the High Court is determined
World Aquatics then FINA first suspended KSF in January, 2021 owing to incessant wrangles and court cases before it moved to ban the country indefinitely In July last year after failing to meet several deadlines for election
The turbulence in Kenya’s murky swimming waters seems far from over even after World Aquatics installed a Stabilisation Committee last year to run swimming activities in the country.
World Aquatics could now consider expelling Kenya that is under suspension entirely if the elections organised by its Stabilisation Committee on July 8, this year, are not held as scheduled.
