Two Kenyan athletics officials in court over Rio Games fiasco

NOC-K Secretary General Francis Kanyiri Paul (right) and General Team Manager Pius Ochieng at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi yesterday. The two officials were arrested on Friday night in connection with the Rio 2016 Olympics scandal. (PHOTO: DAVID NJAAGA/ STANDARD)

Two athletics officials have been arraigned even as plans to impeach Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario over the Rio fiasco gathered momentum.

And Kipchoge Keino, president of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K), which Dr Wario has blamed for mismanagement of the national team, declined to discuss the matter, saying “it is a matter in court”.