Amid a public outcry over negligence and poor management of the nation’s sports facilities, Keini West District is set to get a new stadium.

A six-member Athletics Kenya team last week toured the site of the proposed Mweiga Stadium on invitation by the local Member of Parliament, Nemesius Warugongo.

Derelict Ruring’u

The proposed stadium, which Warugongo nicknamed Mweiga Wembley Stadium, will be a welcome development especially after AK abandoned the derelict Ruring’u Stadium, 17km away in Nyeri, and moved the weekend track meeting from there to Narok.

Warugongo said: “I love the UK’s Wembley Stadium and it is my dream this will become as magnificent in terms of impact and sporting activities.”

The meeting gave technical advice to the contractor, who is on site, to ensure the facility in the town centre of the Kieni West

District headquarters, along the Nyeri-Nyahururu highway, meets standards. The facility is seen as an alternative training venue for athletes, especially long distance runners.

With a football pitch, a dais, several volleyball courts and facilities for field events, Mweiga Stadium will be the only one big enough for track and field events and speed work training in Nyeri County.

“We are glad the initiative is coming from a local leader who seems to understand the needs of youths,” said Nyeri AK sub-branch chairman Mutahi Kahiga.

She might be old, but fashion is something she is not ready to let go easily. Eunice Wangeci Maina, 65, leaves many with their mouths agape because of her stylish dress code. Her sense of dressing developed at an early age and she has made it her trademark style, matching everything from the hat, to the handbag and even umbrella.

And indeed “Cucu wa mix and match” (fashion granny), as she is fondly referred to by residents of Blue Valley estate where she hails from, has become an icon in Nyeri Town, standing out from the rest. In fact, the widow and mother of four, has become a mentor and inspirational figure to young and old women alike.

Grief befell Endarasha Boys in Nyeri after two students were burnt beyond recognition after a dormitory was reportedly set ablaze by fellow students.

The two students Kennedy Karogo Njuguna and Joseph Mwangi Maina of Endarasha Boys Secondary School in Kieni West district were trapped when a fire broke out at the Fr Wambugu dormitory where 180 form one students slept.

The charred remains of the two students, blackened by the raging inferno, lay near an exit door, an indication they got burnt while trying to escape from the burning building.

The building was also badly damaged with the roof caving in and burnt metal beds and boxes which were littered outside the dormitory, perhaps as students tried to rescue some of their belongings.

Following the incident, nine form one students have been arrested. Also arrested were the owner of a petrol selling outlet at Endarasha town and a man he reportedly instructed to sell petrol to the students.

Police recovered a 10 litre container believed to have carried petrol which was used to set the dormitory ablaze.

Students are said to have jumped over the school fence and walked the 500 meters to Endarasha trading centre where they bought the fuel.