Kwara coach gets 10 years ban for doping junior athlete

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria anti-doping committee has recommended a 10 years ban for the coach who allegedly injected a junior athlete with banned substances during the 2021 National Youth Games in Ilorin, Kwara State. The athlete involved Fatimah Abdulaziz who was 16 years at the time of the doping, was given a one year ban, but would be welcomed back to track and field since she had already been out suspended for one year. During the hearing she had insisted that it was her coach who injected her with a substance unknown to her, despite the fact she was not sick. The coach, who works with the Kwara State Sports Commission, Hammed Muritala admitted to injecting the athlete after she complained of pains in her leg. “It’s now left for the AFN to make the ban official,” said an athletics source “We really need to send a message to these coaches who indiscriminately dope these young athletes to give them results at local meets. “The worst thing is that the athletes don’t even know what they are being injected with.”