Police Trailing Banned Kiprop After Threatening Tweets

Police in Eldoret are looking for disgraced athlete Asbel Kiprop with the view of disarming him after a series of tweets in which he threatened to seek justice using his firearm.

The former 1500m champion was recently slapped with a four-year ban by Athletics Integrity Unit for allegedly testing positive for a banned substance. Kiprop, however, maintains that his samples were tampered with. According to him, he has never doped.

In a series of tweets, a visibly distressed Kiprop, who’s a policeman by profession, threatened to get justice using his firearm raising concerns that he could take his own life or of those he accuses of setting him up.

[perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]”I pray to National Police Service to dismiss me now. Before I use their machinery to earn myself justice. Kindly. IAAF come take your medals. I don’t need any on my house wall,” [/perfectpullquote]

read one of the tweets.

Kenya Police Deputy Inspector General Joseph Kiget who’s also in charge of athletics in the force said action will be taken against the 29-year old for using the wrong channel to express his grievances.

” We don’t condone such behavior from our officers. Channels of addressing personal grievances are provided in the NPS rules and regulations and firm administrative action will be taken appropriately in this case,” he told the Daily Nation.

Kenyans on social media have called on his close friends to come to the aid of the once-celebrated athlete