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The government has moved to enforce the Sports Act by having all sports clubs and training camps licensed by the Ministry of Sports.

 Ministry officials have started countrywide inspection of athletics training camps collecting details of the facilities and issuing registration forms for the clubs, camps, coaches and professional athletes.

 The forms seen by People Daily Sports are from the Sports Registrar.

 The owners of the camps and clubs are supposed to fill in the forms and return them to the Ministry headquarters. Coaches who received the forms said no timeline for the return of the forms has been given.

 The camp owners are also supposed to pay the requisite fees to the government on submission of the completed forms.

  In addition to filling in the forms, the applicants will also be required to provide the constitution of the club or camp, strategic plan, updated list of officials and members, copies of logos, and emblems, compliance, and certificates for VAT, PIN, NSSF and NHIF.

Certificates of good conduct

 The training camps’ officials are also supposed to produce certificates of good conduct. The applicant should also prove to be of good standing in line with Chapter Six of the Constitution by providing clearance certificates from KRA, EACC, HELB and CRB.

 The chairman of the club or the training camp will be required to also provide a “statutory declaration” that the body or person applying for registration will observe anti-doping rules.

 “It is a serious offence to unlawfully give false information on this form,” the document warns the applicants.

 Issuance of the forms by the Ministry clears confusion that followed a communication by Athletics Kenya that the training camps had to have a registration certificate by March 15th this year.

  The AK communication, dated February 28th and signed by the federation’s Chief Administrative Officer Susan Kamau, to all its 16 affiliates failed to clarify the source of the certificate that had to be acquired. This made the training camp owners rush to acquire registration from the Department of Social Services in the respective counties.  The Ministry officials told coaches who had acquired the certificate from the department of social services that the document is not recognized by the Sports Act.