The Kenyan team were due to be given around Ksh 8 million (£57,000/$78,000/€71,000) to cover their travel and accommodation costs, approved by the Sports Ministry, to compete at the event in Doha in October.

They were then, however, told they would not receive it just a week before the competition, a key Paralympic qualification event, was due to begin.

As a result they were forced to miss a second IPC World Athletics Championships in a row after being absent from Lyon in 2013 for a similar reason.

This is in stark contrast with the support given to the Kenyan able-bodied team ahead of August's World Championships in Beijing, where they finished top of the medals table with seven gold, six silver and three bronze medals.

It also threw their participation at this summer’s Paralympics into doubt, though its athletes will still have the chance to secure their spot at the Games during the series of IPC Athletics Grand Prix competitions in 2016, beginning with the first event in Canberra, Australia from February 5 to 7.

IPC director of communications Craig Spence, who had previously admitted the body was “very disappointed” Kenya didn’t send a team to their World Athletics Championships, reiterated his stance and said the Government “needs to give more support to its Para-athletes”.

“We were very vocal about the situation in Doha and we are still monitoring that process,” Spence said.

“We want as many countries as possible to compete at Rio 2016.”

Kenya are also struggling to qualify athletes for the Paralympic Games in other sports, with none of their competitors guaranteed a spot at the event in the Brazilian city.

Though they have had a good degree of success at Paralympic level over the years, winning three gold medals at Athens 2004, five at Beijing 2008 and two at London 2012, they only sent track and field athletes to the Games four years ago.

Samwel Kimani won gold in the T11 men's 1,500 metres and compatriot Abraham Tarbei took the T46 title over the same distance at the event in London. 

It is not the first problem for the Kenyan Paralympic fraternity in recent months, with the country also sending only 20 athletes to compete in Paralympic events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, despite qualifying 32, because 12 were not officially classified by the IPC.

Since then, the Kenyan National Paralympic Committee has been suspended by the IPC following months of infighting, temporarily removing Oluoch as President before she returned to the role in June.