Next year's World Athletics Cross Country Tour in Eldoret to be named after Tirop

Slain Olympian and World Record holder Agnes Tirop was on Saturday 23 October 2021 laid to rest at her parent's home in Nandi County. 

On a day she was supposed to be celebrating her 26th birthday, the 10km women's only record holder rests, leaving behind a husband who is the main suspect in her cruel murder and parents struggling to accept their daughter's passing coupled with a dilemma of how to claim their child's property that has allegedly been registered to their son in-law. 

During her burial, Athletics Kenya president Jack Tuwei announced that next year's World Athletics Cross Country Tour will be named after the athlete.

As police investigations continue, Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has expanded the mandate of the Ministerial Committee on Gender Welfare in Sports to include Tirop's case, directing the Committee to present her with a report next week. 

"I would like to that H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta for his interest in this matter and especially for sending out an investigatory team to help us piece together the last moments of Agnes' life. 

I have expanded the mandate of the Ministerial Committee on Gender Welfare in Sports to include the case of Agnes and to present to me its report next week. We will thereafter hold a the Agnes Tirop press conference, in her honour, and present the findings of the taskforce to the public," Amina offered in a statement.

The CS has further called on parents to provide conducive environments for their children as they grow and to instill in them life skills needed to co exist with others in the society. 

 "As we celebrate the life and legacy of Tirop, I want to urge all the parents to pay attention to the environment in which we are raising our children. Our children are a reflection of who we are as individuals, parents and a society. 

As adults we are their first teachers in life. They hear how we talk to each other, they observe how their fathers treat their mothers and are conscious of how the male figure in their lives express themselves," she offered in a jibe that seems to be directed at Tirop's husband Ibrahim Rotich's upbringing. 

She continued, "What happened to Agnes should not happen to another family. No parent should have to go through the pain and sorrow, that her parents are experiencing.

Let us therefore start a movement to save our children. Let us raise them with admirable values that they will carry into adulthood. Let us endeavor to raise them in homes that are filled with love, tolerance and forgiveness."