By Our Reporter
A pool game tournament is slated to take place in the home of champions, Eldoret town tomorrow.
The tournament is organised and sponsored by Base Yetu, private entity that promotes talents and vision for the young people across the country.
Tomorrow’s tournament will be the third leg in Eldoret and scores of the game players as well as fans are expected to throng Foxy’s Wagon Wheel Hotel where it will take place.
According to Base Yetu Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nick Mararo, the best five players will take home a total of more than Sh60,000 with the best player pocketing Sh30,000.
The tournament will be graced by several artists led by Inspekta Mwala, Lion and Mbusii.
A similar tournament took place last Saturday where more than 100 players took part with Stanley Kandie emerging the winner.
Inspector Mwala led other artists and entertainers in sensitising Eldoret residents in particular and Kenyans in general on the need to embrace Pool game as a sporting activity like they do to football, volleyball, darts, netball and athletics among other games.
“Pool is a game just like football or athletics. It is making youth busy, take away from crime and make them earn a living,” Inspector Mwala told the residents in various stopovers in the town.
Two weeks ago, the Base Yetu CEO Nick Mararo graced the first pool edition in the town where asked the government to consider supporting the game as it does to other sporting activities.
Pool game is by the day becoming popular among people of all ages, but is mostly loved by the youth.
Base Yetu has in the recent past organized such interactive tournaments in various parts of the country.
Youths support Mararo’s call for the government to invest in the game saying it another way of actively and positively engaging the young people most of whom are jobless.
John Kariuki