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A law is only as good as its enforcement. A governance framework is only as strong as its weakest loophole. By both measures, the Sports Act of 2013 has been a quiet catastrophe, progressive in ambition, toothless in practice, and so thoroughly gamed by federation officials that it has become less a governance instrument than a playground for lawyers.
12 is a long time. Long enough for every chairman and faction leader in Kenyan sport to learn exactly where the ambiguities sit, which clauses bend under legal pressure, and how to use a High Court to freeze an AGM, nullify an election, or stay in office past the point where any honest reading of a constitution would require them to leave.
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