Bungoma County Secondary School 2023 Games Competitions kick off at Bungoma High School
“ I want to call upon all teams to embrace a high sense of discipline and sportsmanship in these games”
The 2023 Bungoma County Secondary Schools Games Competitions have officially kicked off at the Bungoma High school Grounds in Kanduyi Constituency .
Speaking during the official opening of the games which have brought on board teams from all the 12 sub-counties of Bungoma county ,the Bungoma County chief officer in-charge of Housing and Municipalities Mr Denson Barasa noted that Governor Ken Lusaka is keen in ensuring that his government nurtures the sporting talents amongst students.
According to Mr Barasa ,Governor Lusaka will soon advertise the vacancy for Director of Sports Bungoma County Urging Teachers to take note of the noble opportunity and apply for it.
During the event Mr Barasa donated a trophy and Kshs 10,000 for the competitions kitty and kshs 5,000 towards the Officials refreshments.
The Bungoma county secondary schools sports Association Chairperson Mrs Florence Mukangula urged all the teachers to ensure that they only engage students to participate into the tournament ,warning that any school that will go against the rule will be disqualified from the competitions.
Mrs Mukangula warned that any school principal or teacher whose school will be found engaging non-students as per the Ministry of Education Guidelines as players of their various teams could face Interdiction.
“ I want to call upon all teams to embrace a high sense of discipline and sportsmanship in these games as our officials cum Referees will be up to task , said Mrs Mukangula.”
Her Sentiments were echoed by her Vice-Secretary Mr Andrew Wafubwa who noted that any complaints from the participating teams should be reported as soon as possible in order to avoid late complains over any misbehavior cum cheating in the exercise.
On his part the Bungoma county and Western region chapter Chairman of the Kenya Secondary schools Heads Association Mr Bikala Situma called upon teachers leading the teams to only use students from their schools and avoid any attempts to engage locals.
Mr Bikala also stressed on the need of the players to embrace a high sense of discipline ,urging Referees to take note of fairness and Professionalism when engaging the teams in the field.
According to KUPPET Bungoma county Executive Secretary general Mr Augustine Kundu Luketelo said that schools have suffered setbacks due to lack of enough capitation to fund the sports.
He has said that they have engaged the Ministry of Education to add more money to the kitty to assist Teachers in managing the teams plus additional pay to the Referees officiating the Matches.
“ Kindly Teachers Don’t bring us non-students to these competitions it is not a matter of life and death to go to the Regional Competitions ,said Mr Luketelo. ”
The Bungoma County Director of Education Mr Pius Ng’oma and the Quality assurance standards Director Mr Caleb Omondi urged the officials to ensure that all the participating students have valid documents before the start of the various matches.
Mr Ng’oma told all teams to accept results.
Some of the participating schools include Bungoma High School in Rugby , St Mary’s Kibabii high School, St Teresa’s Kabula high school, Kapsokwony Boys High School, Bukembe Boys high school , Lwanda Girls High School to mention but a few.
The County competitions are slated to end on Saturday ,thereafter the winning teams will proceed to the Western region competitions slated to be held in Kakamega County.
Achola Bulimo Mathews
Bungoma County
About Author
