Dear Mr.President===Take time to look at our football

Dear Mr. President,
Your excellency sir===Kindly Sir,=== take a few of our minutes from the cabinet meetings and ask the Minister for Sports and or the PM(football enthusiast) to explain a few things. While I may understand that your passion lies in hitting a ball with a special stick, I would like you to turn your attention to this significant sport======>>>>>>>>>> FOOTBALL==fans in Kenya are left more than disappointed at the continuous uninspiring performance by the National team.  I know this matter has been raised in many a fora but I still find it in order to raise it with your office which is the highest on land.Thank you once again for promulgating the constoitution and I  found it right to address this matter of football with you now that the headcache of promulgation is over and the noise,hugh and cry over your choice to invite President  El-bashir for the occasion has died off.


There is something that doesn't add up.  Being the national team, it is taken that the talent scout, or whoever recommends them for a spot on the team, went for the best he could find. No surprise that some of them play for international clubs,read--Mariga,Oliech,Mambo e.t.c. So, we can hardly blame poor performance on lack of talent. Football, as we know it is not a game of trial and error; it is one that is organized in a manner that has each player fulfill a specific role. That, in most cases would probably eliminate the 'too many cooks spoil the broth' explanation or if you have been to Lake side of late they say(Oyieyo man'geny ok kuny bur)loosely to mean soo many mice do not make or dig a good hiding hole. This talent, combined with intense training, I have all along hoped, would be adequate to put our country top on football charts. Clearly, Wanjiku and Atieno plus Rudisha have been foolishly living in self deception. How distressing.

Frankly Your Excellency, the Minister should know by now that all the bickering among the Football Kenya Limited and the team's management has scratched our ears raw. We hear more of them than of the individual players, who have to put up with many inconveniences just to play a game they love let alone the fans who long for the old football of Kenya. The recent scapegoat (of weather) for the Guinea Bissau defeat was hardly plausible. Changing of coaches and forming tribunals to look into matters arising has also proven to be a cosmetic remedy. Those responsible should desist from insulting our intelligence.

Back in the days of my primary schooling, it was the prefects who would pay the price if a class was found to be disorganized.Your excellency let me draw your attention to an incident that occured when I was in class four or is it standard four==Our English teacher had a ppointed some guy to be writing down the names of those who speak in mother tongue==remember it ook my primary school in Gishagi your excellency where we were all bure in speaking this foreign language called English. So given the guy was even more bure in this language and continuously conversed in mother tongue,he did not produce the list at the evening assembly as was required==He was the one who bore the punishment for all the class=It was sad but that was the best way to make sure he performs next time.
 So this is the scenario I expect here sir that when a prefect was asked to explain why things were not as they should be, it was out of the question for him or her to give a statement such as, "It's the students'/pupils' fault. They are the ones making noise/littering etc…," The question was indirectly understood to mean that the person in charge was being irresponsible by allowing things to run out of control. In this case however, the players are the ones to pay the ultimate price if FIFA bans Kenya from participating in international games because of not putting the house in order. While one may argue that the players are not guilty free, the disorganization and power struggles make things worse since the focus is shifted from the game to the politics of the game.

It is a pity that in a country with such fervent football enthusiasts, we have little to boast of on the international scene. The Minister may want to consider that in addition to the perceived incompetence of football officials, there is an underlying problem in the values, the system and governing principles that breed fertile ground for wrangles. I would suggest that the Minister orders an overhaul of the entire management team and re-examine these factors. Doing one without the other will be a case of a different forest, same monkeys – not helpful.

Your excellency===the sports minister should prove to your office==or where is the EMU(efficiency monitoring unit) based that they are not Bureee Kabisa Sir. I am very disappointed yet I love football like my mother's breast milk.

Over to you your excellency


Ja'kamburi