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AFRICA TO PULL OUT OF CBC: Ndolo to lead quest for fresh elections or formation of new Commonwealth boxing body

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The outgoing Kenya Proffesional Boxing commission(KPBC) patron Reuben Ndolo and incoming patron Johnson Sakaja.PHOTO/DENNIS OKEYO

The Commonwealth Boxing Council (CBC) is in disarray and serious danger of collapse after its African members accused the body of “racism” and threatened to break away from  the Commonwealth family and form their own association.

The split, which has been simmering for a while, came into the open after the Africans went up in arms over CBC’s alleged failure to conduct its Presidential elections on December 12 in which Reuben Ndolo of the Kenya Professional Boxing Commission was a candidate.

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