Ababu Namwamba is a busy man. For a week now, the new Cabinet Secretary for Sports has been on a sports tour of Qatar, the host of the 32nd edition of the FIFA World Cup.While there, the former Budalangi Member of Parliament has been meeting various people, including the who is who in the game of football, currently at the center of the global attention.Nice catching up with our footballing great @OgadaOlunga. Exciting ideas Mike has on getting Kenyan football back on track. pic.twitter.com/0efnLfUIxj— Hon Ababu-Namwamba, EGH🇰🇪 (@AbabuNamwamba) November 24, 2022 On Wednesday, Ababu held a meeting with FIFA honchos including president Gianni Infantino and the Secretary General madam Fatma Samoura.Also, in attendance was Patrice Motsepe, the South African business mogul and president of CAF, the African football body based in Cairo, Egypt. Motsepe is also the owner of multiple South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns.##NAJAVA_MECA_6834087##”(I) Met in Doha today FIFA President Gianni Infantino, General Secretary Fatma Samoura and CAF President Patrice Motsepe. I congratulate Qatar for superbly hosting the world’s most loved sporting event, and commend FIFA for making football truly global,” Ababu posted on his social media handles.Kenya was last year expelled from international football by FIFA over third party interference after Ababu’s predecessor Ambassador Amina Mohammed disbanded the Football Kenya Federation, FKF Executive and installed a Caretaker Committee to act in its place.##NAJAVA_MECA_6833997##Ababu, following FIFA’S demands for the indefinite suspension to be lifted, has reinstated the Executive, but under the FKF vice president Doris Petra, as president Nick Mwendwa still has a corruption case in court.Ababu also met the Harambee Stars skipper Michael Olunga, who plays in Qatar for Al Duhail SC.”Nice catching up with our footballing great Michael Olunga. Exciting ideas Mike has on getting Kenyan football back on track.”As a way of giving back to the society, Olunga has since set up Michael Olunga Foundation Academy Football Club, MOFA FC which has started to nurture age grade talents.
