By Our Correspondent
The government has been urged to consider investing in the Pool game as it has been doing in other sporting activities.
BASE Yetu, an organization that has been engaging youths interested in the game want the government to consider and support it saying it is no longer a betting game as it used to be.
“Pool is a sport. Our main agenda is to bring Pool from being a gaming entity to a sport,” Base Yetu Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nick Mararo said at the weekend.
He said by the government investing in Pool which has millions of funds across the country, it will help the young people get an income through tournaments.
“Base Yetu hopes to keep the youth productively engaged and completely detached from social ills such as drug abuse and crime,” Mararo noted as he presented cash and prizes to a tournament winners in Uasin Gishu County.
The tournament that attracted more than 50 players was held on Saturday at Foxy’s Wagon Wheel Hotel in Eldoret Town and saw winners take home various prizes.
The tournament winner Dennis Sang emerged the winner and took home a cash prize of Sh30,000, the runners-up Peter Njau received Sh15,000 with the third placed winner S. Muhindi getting Sh10,000.
Pool game is by the day becoming popular among people of all ages, but is mostly loved by the youth.
Addressing the players and fans, Mararo observed that the continued support of game activities in the country by his organisation is part of their social productivity through sports and also offering training on financial welness.
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.
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