A bus company named Tawfiq once ruled the Kenyan roads. Plying the 936-kilometer Mombasa-Busia trade route, this particular bus drew myriads of praises from travelers and non-travelers alike. For travelers, Tawfiq was fast, fancy, modern and efficient road machine.The non-travelers, mostly young men dotting sleepy villages across Kenya carrying big dreams of once riding in the bus and reaching the fairy destinations Tawfiq was so efficiently delivering people to.#PassingSportsBatonCS Amina Mohammed. Has now officially handed over the mantle to the next CS Ababu Namwamba pic.twitter.com/IJS6mfmLqI— 🇰🇪💖 (@Simiyu_001) October 28, 2022 Fast forward 2022 and Pius Tawfiq Ababu Namwamba takes office as Sports Cabinet Secretary. A docket majorly governing the dreams and aspirations of Kenyan youth bearing huge sporting dreams. A malaise in the docket has rendered Kenyan sport sleepy and the youth idle, like those non-travelers in the 1990’s who would only afford to cheer and admire Tawfiq the bus as it snaked through villages ferrying others.Tawfiq the bus promised much, then.Tawfic the Sports Minister, is promising a lot. Football which is dearest to most is in total shambles.CS Ababu Namwamba: Without any fear of contradiction, If President Ruto had asked me to choose which pair of shoes to step into, I wouldn’t have chosen a better pair of shoes than those of CS Amina Mohamed…I’m stepping into the shoes of a Kenyan giant and heroine pic.twitter.com/MmRVqxPNV8— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) October 28, 2022 “We want to immediately get done on dealing with FIFA and FKF. I have been sufficiently briefed by CS so that we can find a solution to this gridlock. A solution that is in sync with the rule of law because without the rule of law anarchy will prevail. Anarchy will consume our entire sporting space,” he said regarding the debilitating situation in Kenyan football
