Nairobi — Athletics Kenya (AK) president Jack Tuwei reveals they’ve unearthed a worrying pattern of age dishonest by way of forgery of identification paperwork, together with start and college leaving certificates.
Tuwei mentioned the vice goes way back to 2016, including that they’ve to date unearthed 26 circumstances.
“We now have found within the latest previous…in Athletics Kenya that we’ve obtained just a few athletes who’ve amended their paperwork to indicate completely different ages versus their actual ones. We now have to date found 26 circumstances going all the way in which again to 2016,” Tuwei mentioned.
The president mentioned they’re enterprise a radical investigation and expects to unearth extra circumstances.
“We’re investigating to search out out what the issue is, the place it’s coming from and the way can we cope with it as a result of it’s going to require detailed investigations. We’re coping with paperwork, that are both solid or actual or no matter,” he mentioned.
Tuwei added: “Whenever you speak about a start certificates, that may be a authorities doc…it doesn’t come from us. Subsequently, we want to us those that are coping with a few of these paperwork to help us and be sure that no matter paperwork issued to the Underneath 18s, beneath 20s and these youngsters, is appropriate and licensed.”
The revelation comes within the wake of the nationwide trials for the World Underneath 20 Championships, held on the Nyayo Stadium over the previous weekend.
Quizzed on whether or not the a few of these affected are a part of the Kenyan staff to the worldwide occasion, set for Lima, Peru on August 27-31, Tuwei mentioned that isn’t the case.
“It’s after we are perusing the paperwork and if we uncover any circumstances, then motion might be taken,” he mentioned.
The president didn’t, nevertheless, supply a particular timeline for the completion of the investigations.
