Sonko to renovate ‘home to Gor mahia’

Hope this time the plan will be completed. It is not the fiPlans are on course to renovate City Stadium to international standards as we strive to improve sports infrastructure in Nairobi County in order to give the youth an opportunity to nurture their talent.

My administration is also still committed in completing the rehabilitation of Dandora, Kihumbuini, Woodley, Jacaranda and Kariokor stadiums.

As the main stadium in Nairobi in the 1960s and 1970s, Nairobi City Stadium not only hosted high octane football matches, but was also the spiritual home of Kenya’s football in the golden years. That is no longer the case today.

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The stadium has become an eyesore to Eastlanders and exposes the soft underbelly that is poor leadership and horrible state of sports facilities in the country.

The stadium which was first named African Stadium, then renamed Donholm Road Stadium, later Jogoo Road Stadium, before acquiring its current name, has not changed much.

he only notable change it experienced was in 2008, when it was picked as one of the 52 facilities in Africa to benefit from Fifa’s ‘Win With Africa in Africa’ initiative that sought to lay artificial turfs on each of the stadiums in Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup finals that were held in South Africa.

Through this initiative, the facility had an artificial turf laid on it, becoming the first ever stadium in Kenya to have such. However, what was thought would lay a foundation for its improvement in the succeeding years just remained that, a dream.

As part of the agreement with Fifa, the Nairobi City Council

— the predecessor of Nairobi City County – was supposed to renovate the terraces, changing rooms, washing rooms, lighting as well as build ample parking facilities.
The delay in implementing this project irked Fifa with its development officer in charge of the Eastern Africa region Ashford Mamelodi lamenting in his previous visit of the facility.

 

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