Athletics Kenya are looking to register all training camps in the country following the spiraling cases of doping by Kenyan elite runners.
The registration will revolve around details of all personnel in residence therein and their respective roles in relation to athletes.
According to a press statement, AK are seeking to regulate, examine and certify all coaches working with Kenyan athletes within and outside the country.
"Henceforth, it will be mandatory for all coaches handling Kenyan athletes in any jurisdiction to have requisite certification from AK," the statement said.
The statement further noted that all foreign coaches and support personnel working with Kenyan athletes must seek a license from Athletics Kenya to carry out their professional duties.
"Athletics Kenya will subsequently forward approved applications from such persons operating within Kenya to the Department of Immigration for the provision of requisite work permits.
"Any foreign coaches and support personnel without such clearance will not be allowed to operate within the country,” the statement read.
AK said all foreign nationals living within areas where Kenyan or other athletes have their training camps and/ or conduct their training must indicate their physical addresses and particulars of their local contact persons.
AK said they may randomly but also routinely require foreign coaches and athletes’ support personnel to offer history of their movement and contacts within and without the country in respect to handling Kenyan athletes.
AK noted they have reinvigorated their intelligence and investigation unit with an aim of dismantling the cartels and taking the war on doping to a new level.
"As a federation, we continue to take all possible measures to educate athletes, coaches, teachers and all personnel involved in the professional athletics ecosystem, and exhort them to act in compliance with the law."
