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Deputy
President Ruto (left) welcomed back Kenya's victorious athletes from Beijing yesterday
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Kenya's Deputy President
William Ruto has said the government wants to make doping in sport a criminal
offence, the AFP news agency reports. He spoke yesterday following the homecoming of
Kenya's athletes from the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, where they
topped the medals table. Two Kenyan
athletes, Koki Manunga and Joyce Zakary, were banned during the competition
after failing drugs tests.
Mr
Ruto said the cabinet will be looking into the doping issue.
"We
want to put into place measures to elevate the anti-doping agency and give it a
legal framework so that it is backed by law to make it an offence," he is
quoted by AFP as saying.
However Kenya's
Attorney General Githu Muigai has told the BBC that doping in sport is
already illegal in the country.
He
was clarifying remarks made earlier in the day by Deputy President William Ruto
that plans were in place to criminalise it.
Mr Muigai said: "What
we want to do is strengthen the implementation of this [already existing] law
and deal firmly with the few who engage in doping.''
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