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Sex pests in federations killing Kenyan girls sporting ambitions

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For the better part of last week, sporting fraternity and sorority expressed their displeasure over reports that basketball coach Philip Ombajo had allegedly sexually preyed on a young female player. In a recorded telephone conversation doing rounds on social media, the girl says that Ombajo tried to force himself on her after locking himself with her in a hotel room at night.

“He said nothing is for free, and he thought that I am mature and I knew how things are done. He told me that he would connect me to go abroad but nothing is for free,” the girl says in the conversation.

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