A day after Elgeyo Marakwet Governor Wisley Rotich ordered the grading, levelling and watering of the Kamariny Stadium track, athletes started thronging the facility to resume their training.
The elated athletes appreciated the Governor’s action saying it had saved them time and resources they were using to travel to as far as Eldoret to train.
On February 7, 2023, the county boss ordered the grading, levelling and watering of the Kamariny Stadium track.
The order was meant to improve the track which had remained in a bad shape after work to transform it into tartan stalled.
“As we wait for the national Government to complete Kamariny Stadium to which we have received a commitment, our athletes can now return and train at the Kamariny track,” Rotich said.
The Governor further promised that routine maintenance of the field will continue.
The works were supervised by Roads County Executive Committee Member (CECM) Emmy Kosgey and her Sports counterpart Purity Koima.
More than 2,000 athletes used to train at the historic stadium. Some of the world records broken by local and foreign athletes are traced to the great stadium.
With the improvements done by the county, athletes can now train at the stadium with ease.
Stalled projects
Kamariny Stadium was one of the 6 sports facilities that the government had in 2013 pledged to transform into world-class.
Others were to be in Wote, Chuka, Nyeri as well as Kisumu and Mombasa.
But even with the pledges, a majority of those stadiums are not yet complete – including the Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Eldoret.
Further, Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba earlier this year ordered an audit of all stadiums that had been built during the Jubilee government reign.
The decision, Namwamba said, was based on the fact that work done on the said projects did not reflect huge investments put in.
“Some people should be in jail, no one can see value for Sh 180 million said to have been used in this stadium,” the CS said after visiting Moi Stadium in Embu County.
It was a similar verdict when he visited Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Eldoret in December 2022.
