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Kenyan MPs amend anti-doping law

Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed speaks during the launch of anti-doping e-learning program by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (Adak) at Golden Tulip Hotel in Nairobi on July 10, 2020.


Photo credit: Sila Kiplagat | Nation Media Gorup

What you need to know:

  • The compliance will come to pass if President Uhuru Kenyatta signs the Bill into law.
  • The Bill seeks to criminalise doping in sports, a move that will see offenders serve jail terms as the country intensifies the fight against the vice that has rocked its international recognition as an international athletics powerhouse.

The government moved to within the steps of complying with the Unesco convention against doping in sports after the National Assembly passed the Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill 2020 during a special sitting on Tuesday.

However, the compliance will come to pass if President Uhuru Kenyatta signs the Bill into law.