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.