“These drugs are made for humans, not cattle and athletes from all over the world, Ethiopia, Kenya and the US also fall ill. When you must use a proscribed drug that a doctor has prescribed, it’s a challenge we face.
“When I showed the doctors lists of drugs that are banned, they were stunned since it was the same they prescribe for a variety of illness,” he narrated.
“We need to even be careful about multi vitamins we are given since we lose a lot of calories and fats in training that we need to regain meaning education is the key.
“There is a company, GNLD, that sell boosters that has IAAF and WADA permits and we asked them to come here and we asked them how they could assist athletes but unfortunately, many upcoming runners cannot afford their products.
“We are looking for ways for them to subsidise prices for many runners who cannot meet the cost. Nowadays, I’m very careful with what I ingest and it is one of the ways I have assisted established athletes to cater for the cost,” he goes on.
“It was not something I went for since there was trickery involved. I explained my case and I did not go looking to improve my performance using drugs but rules are rules and they have to be followed,” he concluded as he protested his innocence.
His brother Peter is the reigning Paris Marathon titleholder in a career best of 2:05:38 while sibling Nicholas won the domestic cross country series jackpot last year although he failed to make the Kenyan team for the 2012 Poland World Cross.
“It has been tough for us as a family but we have had to move on. We look forward to welcome him back but enough lessons have been learned. He still has time to achieve what he set out to do, so there is hope,” Peter who ninth (2:11:47) at the World Championships in Moscow said of the woes that befell their first born.