County Sports Officer Shadrack Maya speaking during the selection.
Kajiado County have selected a team to represent the county in the inter-counties staff competition (KICOSCA) to be held in Eldoret
The events which include volleyball, athletics with track and field events, pool, tag of war, cultural dance and other sports events.
County sports officer Shadrack Maya said the event was to select the best team from the staffs to go and build Kajiado County a name.
“Today we have the Kajiado county staff competition for the KICOSCA games in Eldoret where staffs from all over the counties of Kenya that will start from the 16th of August to the 22nd of August.
Mr. Maya added that their hope is to win and proceed to the next stage because Kajiado County have proceeded in all the sports they have participated.
“we started with rugby and then football before we came to athletics and we were number three overall and six of our boys went to nationals and others abroad, I tell our people that sports is a business that pays more than the livestock we keep, it’s good that even our leaders are involved as you have seen the likes of Hon ole Matinda (chairman education and sports committee), Nkirimbai and others who came to the field. They are showing a good picture that sports is now a business”
Only those with pay slips qualify for the games