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Why it's time for urgent reforms in Kenya's sports sector

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Loice chemnung during the 2025 Kenya Prisons Service inter-regional athletes, Darts and Chess Championships at Ulinzi Sports Complex June 6 2025. [Jonah Onyango Standard]

Sports enthusiasts and stakeholders are proposing a raft of measures to grow the multi-million industry.

They have told a taskforce constituted last year to collect views from Kenyans in a planned review of Sports Act 2013 and delivery of a sports policy that the country was yet to give a serious attention to development of the sector.

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