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City sports facilities crying out for help

Football teams from Dandora demonstrate outside City Hall demanding completion of their stadium. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Benson Mutura certainly has his work cut out as he takes over from impeached Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko at City Hall even if only on a temporary basis.

One of pungent items on his in-tray is the rotting sports facilities in the capital, which have gobbled up not less than Sh1billion allocated for their refurbishment. Sonko’s tenure will go down as wasted years with incomplete stadia in Dandora, Ziwani, Kangemi’s Kihumbuini and Woodley in Kibera.

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