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Kenya's Kiplagat steps down as federation boss

Xinhua, April 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Long-serving Athletics Kenya (AK) boss and IAAF Council Member Isaiah Kiplagat announced on Monday he was leaving his post for three months to focus on his campaign to be elected as one of the vice-presidents of the world governing body in August.

Kiplagat is vying for one of the two IAAF Vice-President posts at the General Congress of Beijing in August that will usher in the World Championships at the Chinese capital.

The veteran administrator, who was first voted to office in 1992 and won every subsequent quadrennial election, will vacate office on May 1 after leading what he hinted could be his last Annual General Meeting at AK on April 30.

"From now you will not see me here, if you see me I will be transacting business relating to my campaign and or matters concerning IAAF," the septuagenarian declared in Nairobi.

Former Kenya's Armed Forces commandant, Lt. General Jackson Tuwei was voted to be the interim president with Paul Mutwii, elevated to be the senior deputy president.

"Even if I don't succeed, I'm sure they will be confirmed because it may not be necessary for me to come back anyway. So in any case I remain a member of the Council of IAAF and I will still be an Executive Member of AK," Kiplagat said of the interim leadership installed as he started the process of his long-awaited succession.

IAAF Cross Country Commission chairman, David Okeyo and Fatuma Hawale who were voted as vice-presidents during the last AK elections retain their positions as head of competition and administration for the former, and finance, corporate affairs and communications for the latter.

Kiplagat was recently at the center of a push to cede power from 14 of the 16 regional affiliates of the federation and is credited with turning AK from a nondescript organization to the most endowed national body in Kenya. Endite