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Tale of betting billions and broke sports bodies

Kenya Table Tennis Chairman Andrew Mudibo during NOCK elections at Panari Hotel in Nairobi on Sept 29, 2017. [Photo: Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Despite the existence of a National Sports Fund, debt-ridden sports associations cannot access funds from betting taxes as the battle to repeal the Fund and set up a new one rumbles on.

The Ministry of Sports together with the National Treasury recently moved to amend and repeal sections of the Sports Act establishing and operationalisation of the National Sports Fund and the National Sports Fund Board of Trustees.

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