St. Anthony coach Mayoyo calls for stringent measures to tame age-cheating

St. Anthony Kitale head coach Peter Mayoyo has called on Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association [KSSSA] to come up with hefty punishments to help curb age cheating in school games.

In a candid reflection with Citizen.Digital,  Mayoyo said many schools have suffered injustice in the 2025 school games  competition hence the need to take precautions and punish the culprits.

“It is sad to see that [age cheating] happening in this era, it is not fair to teams that are taking part in the competitions,” he lamented.  “I am calling on the association to come up with tougher punishment to tame the vice before it gets worse,” said Mayoyo.

Several cases were reported in this year's competition involving top teams leading to some of them being disqualified and Mayoyo said “this is the only way to avoid the vice”.

“This has not started this year, it has been happening in many years but it is so bad because it doesn’t give a fair ground for competitions,” Mayoyo lamented.

St. Anthony were beaten by eventual national champions St. Joseph Kitale in  the regional final but the veteran tactician has promised his side will bounce back stronger in next year's competition.

“We will be back stronger, we are creating a great team that will be very competitive and our fans should expect very good results and entertaining football from us,” stated the head coach.