Kariobangi Sharks have been having lethal goal poachers in their ranks in the past since making their debut in the top flight back in 2017.The club has produced the league’s top scorer in three of the past five seasons with Erick Kapaito winning the boot twice in the three instances.##NAJAVA_MECA_6810132##Last season, the club had two exciting forwards in Eric Mmata and Felix Oluoch who had more than twenty league goals between them.However, the club did not stand on the way of the two who have since joined Tusker and Bandari respectively.Homeboyz disinterested in ‘revenge’ after last season’s title capitulationThe gap left in the forward line saw coach William Muluya deep into the transfer market and bought a number of budding forwards whom he has been preparing to shoulder the scoring responsibility.Among the new strikers who are bidding to pick from where Mata and Oluoch left is Moses Shikanda who joined the club from Division One side Green Commandos.Shikanda who is fired up for his debut in the top division believes that he has what it takes to become the top scorer like his predecessors, his experience notwithstanding.”I know what I signed up for and what it takes to succeed at the top level. The club has been shopping for forwards in the lower divisions and molding them to be the best in the top league. It is something I want to achieve too in future,” he said.Shikanda who joined Commandos in 2019 after writing his form four examination said he had developed an habit of reporting to training earlier than anyone and work on his finishing skills as well as doing more gym work.Odhiambo harnessing vast experience from Mathare to get Murang’a Seal promotedThe 22-year old who is also eyeing for a national U23 team call up said he was realizing the fruits of working hard and taking the counsel from the club’s head coach whom he wants to repay the faith he has in him richly.”I have to be in the first team in order for me to achieve my goal. There are also decent forwards in the team who also want to be in the first team. I have been covering the extra mile in a bid to beat the competition for game time,” he added.
