NOCK officials have put us in a bind, eject them

The country is paying an unacceptably heavy price for allowing rapacious, self-serving individuals to dominate the running of national sports associations. And nowhere is their malfeasance so acutely felt than at the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) where officials of this committee and others from independent sports associations held a general assembly where they rejected an amended constitution in favour of holding onto the badly drafted document to run the organisation.

The repercussions were swift and harsh. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) — the body that superintends over all national Olympic committees globally — announced that it would withhold funding to NOCK as it awaits for the enactment of an amended constitution that includes clauses that were deliberately included to drive reforms in the institution.