Plot thickening: Branches insist SGM must go on, Kiplagat calls for meeting today

Athletics Kenya (AK) branch officials (from left) Paul Mutwii (Southern), Jonathan Koskei (Police), Maurice Ochieng’ (Universities), Barnabas Korir (Nairobi) and Peter Angwenyi (Nyanza South) after meeting in Nairobi on Tuesday. [PHOTO: DENNIS OKEYO]

Athletics Kenya (AK) is staring at a major fall-out in the coming days. While the federation is grappling with the damaging dope scandal involving its top female marathoner Rita Jeptoo, branch officials have reaffirmed that the planned Special General Meeting (SGM), which has been ‘outlawed’ by the head office, will continue as scheduled on November 14.

Paul Mutwii, the spokesperson of the AK branch chairmen, said despite the refusal by AK President Isaiah Kiplagat to call for the SGM, they would go ahead and hold the meeting, which will discuss, among others, Kiplagat’s conduct, at the AK headquarters. They evoked Article 10/2D, which empowers AK members to call for an SGM. The agenda of the SGM is to discuss the conduct of the AK President.