Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega County will be ready in four months to host the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN), the government has declared.The facility was closed for renovation following Sunday’s Ingo Derby between hosts Kakamega Homeboyz and AFC Leopards in the FKF Premier League.##NAJAVA_MECA_7891654##Kenya, alongside neighbors Uganda and Tanzania, will stage the biennial tournament meant for home-based players as a dress rehearsal for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), also known as EA Pamoja bid, which the three countries will also jointly host.”As Kenya, we are very ready for CHAN. If you say it is tomorrow then we have Nyayo Stadium ready to host the games, but if we go by our plan, the Bukhungu Stadium will be ready in 4 months’ time for the tournament,” Cabinet Secretary Sports Ababu Namwamba said following a meeting with CAF, the Confederation of African Football, General Secretary Veron Mosengo-Omba in Mombasa on Thursday.Veron, a top CAF honcho, is attending CECAFA, the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations, non-elective General Assembly in the Coastal city.Ababu assured the SG that Kenya was fully prepared for CHAN, with renovations of Bukhungu Stadium well underway, adding that the East African partners had equally demonstrated their readiness for the event.Bukhungu Stadium #FootballKE pic.twitter.com/ouzeYXyN4J— Ole Teya (@TeyaKevin) February 22, 2024 On his part, Véron assured the CS of CAF’s support and availability towards guaranteeing a good execution of the event.Kenya on her own failed to stage the 2018 CHAN which Morocco inherited due to unpreparedness. The country’s achilleas heel was the inability to get the prerequisite infrastructure in place.Mozzart Bet Cup enters Round of 32 this weekendIn 1996 the country also missed hosting the AFCON which went to South Africa due to lack of government commitment.It remains to be seen if things will be different this time round with the renovation of stadiums, including the Kasarani Stadium, handed over to the military.
