“We need to urgently arrest discrimination in all sporting activities and I am impressed that, in just a few months in office, the Njerama-led executive is already getting rid of some laws that took our country back,” said Coltart.
“We have to rally behind them to make sure they achieve their goal of curbing all forms of discrimination in the sport. It’s very sad to bar people from participating in whatever sporting event for issues like their gender and others and it is high time people understand that segregation has no place under my ministry and in this country.”
Njerama, whose board replaced the one headed by Richard Hondo, recently revealed that the current boxing Act (1956), which does not allow women to participate in the sport, needed to be urgently amended to make it gender-sensitive.