A top athletics official walked around with Sh25 million in Rio as athletes were treated to deplorable living conditions during the Olympic games in Brazil.
Stephen arap Soi, who was Chef de Mission, said the money was received from the Sports ministry, through Sports Kenya, and that he asked for it to pay for accommodation and to buy medicine for use by the Kenyan team.
“A decision made by the CS and the PS without the consultation of the steering committee is what could have led to this,” Mr Soi told the Labour and Social Welfare Committee.
This happened even as former marathoner Catherine Ndereba, who was the chaperon of the Kenyan team, was locked out of the Olympic village without food and money. Ms Ndereba Wednesday gave an emotional account of how she was treated to a game of musical chairs by athletics officials, who gave her two tickets to Rio, before ending up in the city only to be locked out of the Olympic village.
Ndereba spent a night without dinner, breakfast and had to borrow money from Soi, who admitted before the committee that he had carried the cash from Kenya “for accommodation of Sports ministry officials and Members of Parliament”.
