Cabinet Secretary for Sports Ambassador Amina Mohammed must be nursing injuries right now after netizens pounced on her with rage over a tweet she made about Kenya Women Rugby national team.
On Sunday, the Lionesses confirmed their space in the 2020 Olympics and as usual, Amina took to social media to congratulate them. A predictable yet empty congratulatory remark which always comes from the CS whenever a Kenyan team performs well in spite of abandoning the national teams.
This time around, angry fans took her head-on.
We celebrate @kenyalioness qualification to the semi finals following a 36-5 win against Zimbabwe. Wishing the ladies the very best as they face Tunisia in the semifinals this afternoon #TwendeKazi pic.twitter.com/1ULwgnKRP1
— AMB.(Dr.) Amina C. Mohamed (@AMB_A_Mohammed) October 13, 2019
Congratulatory messages can neither pay rent nor school fees. You are such scavengers!
— Francis Ngira (@francisngira) October 13, 2019
Wewe tushakusanuka! You rush to congratulate them on Twitter but when they need government support for logistics you are nowhere to be seen! Continue paying bloggers and Dj Nyonginyo to clean your image online but deep within is your soul at peace?
— Jeff Kinyanjui (@Nyash88) October 14, 2019
Our queens have gone through so much to be where they are now, where were you when they needed help?!! You are what’s wrong with sports in this country. pic.twitter.com/kxZA0DZQUQ
— AMO (@arshfordMo) October 13, 2019
You only come kwa Tl kutupea kosokoso mob but kwa ground you doing Nothing……priorities zenu ziko upside down
— Mbugua Wa Wambui (@bennytothedj) October 14, 2019
You spend most of your time on twitter instead of working. Do you even know how these gallant ladies got there or any other sports teams for that matter. Always eager to share in their glory after winning but when they ask for funds to go represent the country you disappear
— Danny Njugunah Gooner 🇰🇪 (@danny_njugush) October 13, 2019
It came a few hours after she insisted that Sports Fund will only fund national teams; not clubs.
“Regulations insist that we’re only going to fund national teams. Because all of you know that we have many clubs in this country and even if we were given 100 per cent of the money (Sports Fund money), we wouldn’t be able to fund all clubs in the country. No country in the world funds clubs. So we only fund national teams,” she said.