By Manuel Odeny,

Uriri MP candidate in the last general elections Jared Kwaga has set to engage youths during the August holiday with a football tournament for boys and girls team.

Kwaga and his team have organised the tourney which will kick off across all four wards in Uriri on August 9 before finals are set to end at Kambogo grounds in Central Kanyamkago on August 20.

“Everything is running on smoothly with registrations and we expected a huge turn out for football lovers, my team in the ground is moving on well with preparations,” Kwaga told Nyanza News over the phone.

In the last polls, Kwaga campaigned to unseat the incumbent Mark Nyamita who won on an ODM ticket.

Already the constituency is poised to be ‘vacant’ in the next polls as Nyamita has been flirting strongly to unseat governor Ochillo Ayacko in next polls.

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Kwaga’s aide Peter Okik said the Jared Kwaga tournament has a target of having over 70 teams and so far 24 have registered for both men and women teams.

Okik said so far each ward has listed venues for the teams with wards games played from August 9 at 8am as follows:

• North Kanyamkago: Koduogo Primary and Masoge Primary grounds with finals at Rapogi Primary grounds.
• Central Kanyamkago: Kagito Primary and Omboo Primary grounds with finals at Piny Owacho Primary grounds
• West Kanyamkago: Ong’eng’a Primary and Osogo Primary grounds with finals at Kambogo primary grounds
• South Kanyamkago: Uriri Primary and Mukuyu Primary grounds with finals at Bware Primary grounds
• East Kanyamkago: Nyakurunkuma Primary and Arambe Primary grounds with finals at Thim Jope Primary grounds

“We have so far received large number of teams which have shown interest and most look forward at a chance to nature their talents and network among themselves,” Okik said.

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He said the tournament was in the inception stage and they will add more games as they progress in next year.

“We want to establish among Uriri that we are keen at nurturing talents and we will improve and make it better as times goes by,” he said.

The tournament is planning to bring in coaches from both county, regional and national leagues to pick talents and recruit them.

The tournament has issued out the following awards, with each team receiving a football:

At ward level:

• Position 1: Sh5,000, a set of uniform and a ball
• Position 2: A set of uniform and a ball
• Position 3: A ball (more still negotiations)
• Position 4: A ball (more still negotiations)

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Constituency Level

• Position 1: Sh50,000, a set of uniform and a ball
• Position 2: Sh25,000, a set of uniform and a ball
• Position 3: Sh15,000, a set of uniform and a ball
• Position 4: Sh10,000, a set of uniform and a ball

Best goal keeper, top scorer, best player will also get awards.