Alcoholism almost ruined my career though it derailed life milestones. To keep it at bay. One psychiatrist advised me to have a passionate hobby-current affairs came in handy, and herewith, is my archive retrieve.
In his 2008/2009 budget speech, Amos Kimunya, the then finance minister,and currently majority-leader in National Assembly proposed at paragraph 52; KShs. 1 million for each constituency for the purchase of sporting kits, including balls and uniforms to initiate community soccer competition. In my view, government was aiming to nurture and tap talented footballers just the way such local authorities annual athletics community competitions tapped one legendary athletic John Ngugi.
Oh! before he actualizing it. Having red it on 12th June, 2008, parliament on July 2, 2008, parliament passed a no-confidence vote against him [Kimunya] after an acrimonious debate in which legislators called for his resignation over the sale of a luxury hotel.
Interestingly, the head of the newly appointed Football Kenya Federation caretaker committee Justice [Rtd] Aaron Ringera the then director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission was one member of task force appointed by the former premier Raila Odinga on which it verdict necessitated Kimunya removal.
If that initiative could have sustained, I gamble Kenyan football have developed immensely and all this fiasco and chaos would not there since the bottom line dismal performance of Harambee Stars.