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By John Kwoba
NAIROBI, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan athletes might be locked out of international championships after a 12-member probe committee appointed by the government to look into doping allegation run out of funds.
Professor Moni Wekesa, who chairs the committee appointed by Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario, confirmed to Xinhua in Nairobi on Monday that they have no money to continue with the work.
"We had meetings with Sports Principal Secretary Patrick Omutia but he was resolute that there is no more money for us. Without increasing our allocation it will be almost impossible to go on with the work," Wekesa said in Nairobi.
The government gave the committee 55,000 U.S. dollars to work for 60 days and deliver a report upon, which was to form the baseline for the programme against doping in Kenya.
The committee has just worked for less than a month and exhausted their fund and still have a long programme before presenting their conclusions to the government. They are demanding triple the initial disbursement for them to clear the work.
"Our mandate was to last for 60 days. It expired on January 10, if you don't factor the Christmas holidays. In fact we just worked for 23 days and presented a preliminary report to the government. We have also asked them to release more money to us so we can complete the remaining assignment," said Wekesa.
The team wants 165 Matt Harvey Jersey , 000 dollars to clear the work. Wario named the committee in November last year in the wake of reports that Kenya sportsmen and women were openly involved in doping.
Back in 2012, then World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) President John Fahey asked Kenya to investigate the matter after an undercover German television journalist reported that the blood- boosting drug EPO and other doping products were readily available in local camps in Kenya and over the counter sales in chemists and pharmacies.
"Kenyans are under the spotlight for their good performance internationally, and, to maintain credibility, therefore we have to ensure that anti-doping measures are fully in place," Wario said in November 2013.
Several star athletes including Olympic 800m Champion David Rudisha said the anti-doping campaign and Kenya's slow process to silence the rumours will cost them financially and emotionally.
"We win clean and we are tested numerous times. But there are calibres of young athletes, sprouting or keen to curve a niche that are trying to spoil the sport by going through short cuts. The government must rein on them and clean the sport," said Rudisha.
Recently, Athletics Kenya president Isaiah Kiplagat also confirmed that plans are at an advanced stage to build a laboratory in Nairobi in 2014, to be used as a blood centre for testing.
He made the announcement at a seminar for athletes in Eldoret in the Rift Valley David Wright Jersey , where issues to do with doping and investments were discussed.
The blood centre will also serve Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and the Central African region. Currently, Africa has .
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