Info, Communication, and Digital Communication Cupboard Secretary Eliud Owalo has challenged college college students to take sports activities as a critical occupation.
Owalo stated days are gone when expertise in sports activities might simply waste away due to a number of deal with classwork. He challenged universities to additionally put a number of effort into harnessing and rising skills as a part of serving to college students safe their futures.
“Sports activities generally is a technique of livelihood and you may develop into an entrepreneur by way of sports activities. Take sports activities very significantly as a result of it’s an alternate technique to earn money other than formal employment,” stated Owalo.
He was talking at Kenyatta College on Wednesday the place he donated a set of taking part in kits to the establishment’s males’s and girls’s basketball teams- Pirates and Oryx.
Owalo, who’s an alumnus of the college, was a part of the basketball crew in 1994.
“A lot of the former gamers you see listed here are nice individuals in society. Let no one inform you that in case you are over-involved in sports activities you gained’t excel in life,” he added.
He challenged the gamers to resume the rivalry with College of Nairobi Terrorists. He additionally promised to help the groups forward of the All African College Video games set for September in Lagos, Nigeria.
Kenya Basketball Federation chairman Paul Otula lauded the CS for his help.
“Basketball can develop greater with help from corporates. The expertise is already there and what we solely want is the help and goodwill,” stated Otula.