Cameraman Were named Bonga Boli winner

By ERICK OCHIENG’

Michael Mukhusiah Were is the Supersport Bonga Boli winner. With four contestants in the finals, Were and Abdinoor Maalim took it down to the wire as Peter Kirumba and Rashid Mwamkondo fell by the way side.

In the end, however, Were, 30, got the nod from the judges with one of the panelists Jacob Ghost Mulee describing him as having “a voice that has passion in it”. A jubilant trained cameraman, who will now trade the camera for the microphone thanked his grandparents who raised him after his parents separated.

“Not only is this victory theirs, it belongs to friends and family and above all God,” Were, who was accompanied by his aunt, Sister Agnes Lucy Lando, said.

“Three years ago I dreamt that I was commentating on TV. But it was not clear whether it was football or what game. Today, that dream has literally come to pass,” Were said.

Supersport Head of Africa Gary Rathbone described the Bonga Boli talent search that spanned close to two months as having paved the way for new developments in commentating in the continent.

Mwamkondo wept as he had come so close to nipping the ultimate prize as Kirumba declared, “life goes on both in football and beyond”.