{"id":645150,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/645150/?format=json","text_counter":173,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Waiganjo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2644,"legal_name":"John Muriithi Waiganjo","slug":"john-muriithi-waiganjo"},"content":"the anti-doping offences should go to the Sports Tribunal or to our courts. It is important to specify so that we know if the first port of calling in matters anti-doping is the Sports Tribunal, so be it. If it is the agency that is going to determine a dispute regarding an athlete, then we know. If we say that one of the functions of the agency is to prosecute anti-doping offences before courts or the Sports Tribunal, then we are not clear on whether we have a tribunal of first instance or whether matters on anti-doping would necessarily go to court. So, even while acknowledging that performance enhancing substances are not confined to athletics only, it would have been important for this Bill - and this is something that should be done at the Third Reading on amendments - to include other sporting activities apart from athletics. As you know boxing is also a sport that is quickly growing and we have other sports like Karate . I think in every sport, performance enhancing substances are in use. I would really like to see that even if it is a---"}