Report and Pictures from Safaricom Sakata Ball Competition

Al Mujahadin won The Sakata Ball North Eastern Regional Finals after defeating Red Eagles in an underwhelming final to win  KShs. 100 000 and proceed to the national finals in Nairobi. They won 3-1 on penalties following a goal less draw in a match that was from start to end dominated by Red Eagles. 

Abdinassir of Red Eagles emerged as the top scorer as well as the most valuable player in the tournament netting Ksh 10 000 in the process.

Al-Mujahiddin's Goal Keeper, Abubakar, was named the best stopper in the tournament and was awarded 10 000shs for his heroics. He took his team through two penalty shootouts in the semifinal and final.

Cynthia Chepkemei of KMTC was awarded Kshs. 5 000 for outstanding goal keeping skills. Her schoolmate   Hellen Nyawira won an equivalent amount after she ended up becoming the top scorer with 9 goals and finally Dorris Anyango also of KMTC won a similar amount after she was named the MVP of the tournament.

KMTC- Garissa won the ladies version of the tournament and were awarded KShs. 50 000 as well as football attire for the entire team. The runners up GTTC won a cash prize of Kshs. 25 000 and a football paraphernalia.

[Post aggregated from Safaricom's platform and blog readers e-mails]

All images from the events are provided by Safaricom.

Fibre Optic Cable in Garissa & Racist Michael Joseph

  Another reason why any self respecting Garissian should immediately cease their association with Safaricom has emerged through recently leaked secret cables published by wikileaks. Apparently, Michael "I-know-everything-kenyans-want" Joseph has told American officials that providing high speed internet to Garissa was a waste of resources. He further added that indeed it was places like Nyeri that needed such services instead of "sparsely populated" NEP.

  I'm very glad that this raving lunatic has departed Safaricom after several years of fleecing Kenyans through over-priced and poor quality services. His borderline racist crap should be called out for what it is by our MPs and every self respecting Kenyan. After years of isolation and neglect we cannot have the guy who is running the tourism department in Kenya advocating for cutting off Garissa from the world wide web.

Quite clearly this megalomaniac has never been to Garissa and doesn't understand the leaps this city has made in the last decade. Before he spews such demonstrable lies maybe he should pay this great city a visit and see what it means the greatest self-made city in East and Central Africa.

  To you Garissians, if you are half as livid as I am, give this moron a call and tell him how pissed you are. Currently, he is the chairman of Kenya Tourism Board.

Nairobi, Kenya Kenya Tourist Board - Head Office                                                  Kenya-Re Towers, Ragati Road P.O. BOX 30630 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 2749 000, +254 20 2711 262 Fax: +254 20 271 9925 E-mail info@kenyatourism.org  As for Dualle and his ilk, they shoud stop pitching for Raila or Ruto and instead call for this guy to be fired. We cannot have a high ranking government official calling for the alienation of Somalis. Why is Nyeri anymore worthy of high speed internet than Garissa, arguably the fastest growing city in the entire nation. You can read the full cable here.