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    "id": 1238630,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK). The ADAK has been given billions of shillings to fight the doping menace among athletes, sportsmen and women and to ensure that we run a clean sport. As you are aware, the Kip Keino Classic is coming up this weekend, where athletes are going to run. It is very unfortunate that several athletes in this Republic have been disqualified based on the issue of doping. If we want to fight the doping menace in this country, we must approach it in a multifaceted way. I said yesterday on the Floor of the House during my closing remarks that after banning the athletes, we need to go after the person who gave the substance to the athletes, footballers, sports men and women or anybody. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) must do its job. Where are these athletes getting the drugs? The Kenya Pharmacy and Poisons Board must come out and de-register the nurses and doctors who give out the drugs. The county governments must remove pharmacists that allow doping to happen in their premises. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and (DCI) and the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage have failed this country. The federations in this country and even the Directorate of Immigration Services have failed. As I said yesterday, while you were on the Seat if I can recollect my memory, somebody jets in to this country using a tourist visa but you find him or her in Kaptagat, Nandi Hills, Meru, Kisii and other areas, training athletes and yet they are tourists. These are the people who mislead our athletes and sports men and women in the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we do not address this doping menace, it will dent the image of Kenya. Kenya has been propelled by our sportsmen and women in athletics. Kenya is known in the world because of its prowess in athletics. Therefore, it is not enough to ban sports men and women over doping. We need to go for the reforms in the ADAK. We need reforms in running of all the federations. You have heard of federations that have not conducted elections since Jesus Christ left this world for heaven. We need to relook and ensure that we sit and agree that the reforms should be done by the Ministry and anti-doping agencies. We need anti-doping agencies that are proactive. We do not need ADAK to do postmortems. We need them to be proactive. We need them to prevent and not to be morticians. The ADAK has reduced itself to just giving us statistics, telling us that they have banned 10 or 20 athletes. What is ADAK doing to ensure that they fight this issue of doping within the sports fraternity in the Republic of Kenya? We do not want people not to trust that we won fair and square when we win in Boston or Chicago. I cite the case of Russia. There was a time athletes in Russia colluded with the Government Ministries and later, when the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) found out that this has been done, they went ahead and banned the entire country. We do not have to put our nation at risk. We should not risk our future. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, allow me to call upon Sen. Mungatana, MGH, to second my Motion on anti-doping. Thank you for your indulgence."
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