 My intention of vying for this seat was to be a boxer and I have seen boxing not doing so well in Kenya nowadays in terms of leadership Now we've come in as a team to change the face of boxing in Kenya First of all, we want to take boxing to machinani We equip the boxers because they don't have equipments Another thing we want to do in ta clubs and in ta counties We need to bring back the glory, we need to bring back the confidence to the Kenyans so that there is boxing in Kenya and after that they will chip in like you see counties we can talk to the governors and for each and every county or sports director of the counties and we can organise a match like for instance we had intermediate, novices and Kenya open and we have just finished the league and the games were perfect, you can see the edge of the boxer want to box but the problem was the leadership like you see Viga the county is the one who finds the boxers to where we are going to box so that is the indication that there is good will in boxing what I want to do, I want people to give me this chance to take the boxing to another level like you see Kameta has never been a boxer so we don't even know about boxing maybe you know about boxing because he has been the president of boxing for the last I don't know forever the only solution is we go to the election we elect the leader who will take the boxing to another level I have been approached with so many companies to sponsor boxing but they can't sponsor boxing without doing an election let me tell you Maxone, let's do the election and then after that you will see where you are going to go I can promise you and I guarantee we are going far with boxing in Kenya under my leadership a boxer to become a professional he has to be how much a boxer true we need to first start with these coaches judges and coaches and referee they go for these courses after that for now for instance let me tell you why we have the disconnect the outgoing president done the cup the professional boxer you know why he is a one man show he wants to do these things like you see for instance we had a league we had a calendar for the league you have to change the calendar to take boxing to Mwingi is there boxing in Mwingi and for information Mwingi is his hometown let me tell you one thing the only glory that will come back to boxing is after the office is gone and we put up a new office and we can afford executive are rotten to IBC we want the IBC to conduct the election because IBC is superior body of the body elections we will talk to knock we will talk to all the agencies and I think so far the election is on there is nothing to dispute the election why should you if now if Kameta knows that he will win the elections why dispute them I can't even talk about him because you see if you stand on a national television and say you are not vying and then after two weeks you are saying you are vying because there are some people who are banned and they were called back how is it how are they banned you can't wake up and ban people from the federation that's unheard of you see this guy he wants to run a boxing like his own house it can't work like that and I saw him on the television saying that there was a boxer that was injured and the mother complained the mother we were the one who cared for that bill of that boxer and for information the boxer is good he is now out of hospital how can you say that we went and just pick up a boxer and told him to box that's ridiculous you can't do that there's a doctor the boxer box in intermediate in novices he was there so if you come and say that can you open we just pick a boxer that's unfair and the other thing is saying that we don't have qualified judges and referees that's unheard of for a very long time we've had in the sport of boxing we lack role models you find there's been this stereotype where people think boxing is for low class citizens whereby we don't have people who have box and who are doing so well in life so there's that stereotype where people who are like they're not very sharp very smart upstairs are the one who take boxing but that is not necessarily true so we need to change that by people who are participating in boxing like for example personally I'm a graduate and when I was cooling I was I think I was the only one at that time who was at the university all my other colleagues were getting employment when they were very young and they were getting those jobs through talent which is right but now the disconnect comes in that since most of our boxers did not go very far in education when it comes to employment especially when we in the country started doing what we call the structural adjustment programs the boxers who had been employed using talent only were the first people now to be retrenched by different state corporations because now the state corporations were downsizing and the requirement now they wanted to see the papers people had so that to sustain them in their jobs so we find that most of the boxers at that time went out from their jobs we need now to nurture young talent especially what Jamal is saying taking boxing to the schools so that we urge the young boxers to combine education and sports that way when they come up they are able to make good decisions when you are participating in boxing boxes especially like the ones who are now in professional you are able to earn your income and you invest you also think of life after boxing and that is what has been lacking people don't prepare for life after boxing you only live for today and when you are a star everybody supports you but when hard times comes you are on your own and we have seen an example of that with so many examples and the prime one will be probably like on Justina Achieng who has been in media this week Slayman Bilali, Awaila Go the examples are so many there are so many of the former boxers whom you meet with them you feel like running away from them we need to help them being the chairman of boxing doesn't make me become if I want to vie, I just vie I just vie I am not into politics that policy of being an MP or a senator or all that but what I want to do is to change boxing not being elected to look for cash or to do no if I was vying, I could have vied Makadarasi long time ago you can even ask the sitting MP now or the former Ben Kenara they are my friends I don't have any intention for vying for any political seat and even if I lose, generally I'll still support boxing we need to up our game like Jamali is trying to say boxing is the second to athletics when it comes to bringing medals at the Olympic level in this country but because of its management boxing has gone down you almost forgotten, rugby is coming up and other sports like volleyball so I think it's a high time we go back and invest in our youths we need to do a lot of capacity building in terms of coaching so that the coaches when he is talking about boxing machinani we need to have right people nurturing that talent at the machinani level so that when they come up they have the right basics and that way we'll be able to have boxers who when they become of age they are able to go and participate at international level and win medals at the moment we have few coaches at machinani level but even if they are not trained they don't have any staff you know nowadays Aiba has introduced a new system where you have 1, 2, 3 and in the country we only have about 6, 3 staff and those 3 staff they are mainly with the big teams KDF, police and prison so you find where we have most boxers which is machinani so we need to do capacity building we ensure that we have at least even one staff coach in every county who can help us to have that talent our ruling was made and what was said, what the tribunal ruled was because the mandate of BAK expired on 25th May 2017 and we are in 2019 so the decisions that were taken to ban those officials which is Ambote, Munuhe and Matito those decisions were taken after the expiry of the term and what the tribunal said was the decisions taken after the expiry of the term were considered to be null and void it's a nullity in law so it's as good as it didn't happen and that's why those officials have never stopped working with their duties as Matito has always like the league and all the tournament he's been on was been the supervisor you've seen change we've done intermediate, we've done novices in the first time novices were done on chat hall so there is a big change that's coming that's what people are afraid of all time to ask my boxers and the delegates we go for the elections if they choose me through this camp through this federation I'll do it and if they don't but let's do the election and change the face of boxing in Kenya