 Let's speak about an equally beautiful sport in the name of beach volleyball with someone who forms an integral part as far as the sport is concerned. It's been pushing for its growth and development in Kenya since its introduction and we've heard, you know, Kenyan beach volleyball as representing the country during Tokyo Olympics Commonwealth, as well as world championships in Italy in June last year. Moses Mude is joining us with the commission chairman to share his insights regarding the sport. Good to see you, bro. How are you doing, man? I'm happy to be here again, again. I'm done. We are not close to life. I'm good to see you. So what has been happening there? I'm happy. You're still looking very young. I don't know what you're looking at. I think we're eating. Indomie. And sweet for the others. Yes, we are back on it and it's unfortunate that we have not finished our season. Our season ends on 18th-19th of this month in Big Tree hotel in Mombasa where we shall have the last leg of the homorogated beach tour. I hope you can still remember that. Humorogated beach tour. This will be Mombasa and we have postponed the other activities to pave way for the athletes to participate in that one. And though we have our leg on our convection available on 11-12 but 18-19 has been reserved for that homorogated beach tour in Mombasa, which will be the last one in the calendar of the year 2022. We normally get our calendar from CABB, where we are guided by the fixtures over the CABB. And anytime we draw our fixtures, they are recognized from Switzerland and we go and impart the indicated information. So all these that are encapsulated in that fixture, we follow them to the letter and that is what we've been doing. You started in my home county, Homa Bay. You know we have virgin beaches in Homa Bay. We were able to go to Ngode Island, Mfangano, we went to Rusega Island, and at the other side of Homa Beta, we were at Beta Hotel, where we did setup a coat. Then we went to the island, we setup another one. And it's a very nice region with a very nice sand. The sand is not as white as those white sand, but it is special. Leg sand. We want to thank the outgoing governor of Homa Bay, who did us proud because he is one actually who sponsored. And the effort of Odundo, the chairman, John Makodundo did us a lot. The teachers in that area, including the game teachers and the principals who did come and were able to see whatever was happening. Quite a number of things came from fine white. So I want to say thank you for Homa Bay people and that they gave me a new name. I will not say it now. I will not say it now. And I know they were just telling me, I heard it in Gidwomo. I understand it for another day. But in Raleigh, the reception of this coat has been overwhelming. People are embracing it. They are moving like fire in Hama Town. We just want to hear beach volleyball. And they are there yesterday. I told you that we have been able to establish about six coats in Nandaro. And the teachers have already started utilizing those coats. The team that qualified for nationals in Nakuru is a team from Nandaro called Kamba High School. Because those kids normally train in the sun. And when they moved to the convection of volleyball, it became hardy. I will tell you one, that Veronica Diambo was one of the best beach volleyball. And also convection of beach volleyball. So when she combined the two, the guys from Turkey could not assist her. She is now a professional bodybuilder. In Turkey? What can we do to make sure that these are sports of national outlook? Can we improvise beaches in several parts of the country? Because beaches are associated with being... I want to agree with you that one thing that will help us to make this game go to the people. Just like we have done it in Homape. Now that those coats are being utilized. The coats that we have in Makuengi, that we did established yesterday, are being utilized. Those ones in Nandaro, they are being utilized. In the southern part of Liktu Kana, the beaches are being utilized. The moment we just tell people, play using the loko sand that we have provided, they are not shingles, they are not debris that can hurt the legs. People don't know that it has been a journey since 2011 to now. How has it been? I want to say that I cannot also claim to be the pioneer of beach volleyball. One lady by the name Patricia, the late Patricia started this game together with some other members. She died last year, but we were able to see her in her death bed. Patricia started it very well in 1997, picked up, then went down. You can remember the likes of the Gadogo families playing at Sprach. But then after she died, we came in with the Moringa, and Rotich of this world. We said yes. Now that we have a commission, why can't we restart the whole thing? Really, in 2011, and what we decided, we decided let's carry the sand from Machakus. Put it in Nyaya Stadium. Created two courts, artificial one, with the polythene people at the bottom, because that is a hard ball court. Did whatever we did, supported by the Mount Kenya Safari Club, supported by the Michuki Hotel, that is forgetting the name, Windsor. The girls who won during that time were given boatchers to use those hotels, and some of them ended up in the Olympics, like Condentia. And that has got to be the major achievement, the Tokyo Olympics. Oh, that's what we were talking about. I think God was the major one. The only thing that was easy was we were dealing with the president of CAVB, Madam Bushra. She was hosting us in a town called Al-Gadil, about 600km from Rabak, the headquarter. And her team, very nice. Egyptian team is also very strong, because Egypt has one advantage, it has a double coastline. The Mediterranean side is under the Red Sea. So we have very many of them training, and they have been doing it since, remember the civilization, we may not go into those details, and so they are always ahead of us. But God was with us in Al-Gadil, because we were able to hit all of them. And I want to say, at this point in time, one of the strong team was hit by Covid, that is Egypt, and to kapiti a katikati camera. So it was positive in this case. Now what are the requirements for someone who has an interest in beach volleyball, because what are its specifications? There is no outer ring that is formed against anybody, finding his way into beach volleyball. It's open to everyone. And if you are a good volleyball player, you can also play beach volleyball. If you look at what has happened in the past, even in 2011, our girls who were in Maputo, the Dasaba and Dakala, they were seasoned convection of oligolas. But now we want to see whether we can start from scratch. And we have started with a very good team called Soin in Nandi, where the young ones started touching them changa in Krima school. And right now we are following them in a school in Bomet. And what we did, when we had a junior championship in Tanzania, we decided to talk the principal and the director of education, we took those young ones up to Darisala and they played very well. So they have started touching the ground when they are in that state. You can imagine what will happen in 2020. As a professional trained teacher, you've got to be happy that you include this as a school program, grassroots campaign and everything. We have touched the now, and as we are talking right now, we have prepared a paper to be taken to the director of education, Mr. Anduari. The commission has already aligned itself and we are meeting for a presentation of beach volleyball. Why? The three on three basketball team yesterday, we were there the day before, but now they are enrolled in the secondary curriculum. So we are saying we can also have, because the three on three is three, beach volleyball is two. So it doesn't cost a lot. Mjanga can be anywhere in a given region. And they can be played just like swimming when we used to go to Kakamega. And they had no swimming pool. Let the leaders of Western North Yemen. We used to take our athletes to Elwet to go and swim. So even this beach volleyball, because it's two-two per region, we can fairly them to an area where we have Mjanga. They play and give the results. We hope that Anduari will listen to us and the whole ministry of education with our very able peers on a very young. And of course, with our seasoned commissioner, who is now our minister, Mr. Honobo Machobu. We do that paper under the implicit. I can tell you, 2024, 2028, 2032, we shall be having Kenya go to the Olympics. Because it was very nice. Schools players are feeding a program to the national team. I've seen the national Olympic committee and Secretary General Francis Motoko saying that, you work in partnership with Kenya KEEC. So probably also seeking to extend the same. You have again stated it very well. The secondary school, the primary school are the feeders of these clubs. If you look at the whole team of Kenya Pipeline, over 85% are from KwaDante. Yes, Kenya Pipeline. I mean, Kenya Kumashubak, right down in the studio. And if you look at the student, they either have from KwaDante, from Kesongon, these are national champions. Yes, but we do not want to stop there and claim the glory in secondary school. We want to go down now to the primary school. And we have one guy called Joseph Biresh who is very good in training young ones. Like the one I've talked about just now, they are playing in Nandi somewhere. He is very good in identifying the young one at that stage. I wish we could have 10, 20 Biresh if we can talk of Biresh's, that is English. Then we have them bring them to secondary school. The team of Soweto here in Nairobi relies on the product of Biresh in Nandi. And so we start from primary school. If possible we start from CDC. Then we go to the lower, whatever then up to that way. If you look at Okutoi today, Okutoi was identified by Coach Joe and she was four years. And Joe decided to go up with the young girl. Now she is training in USA. She is in a underscoreship. And she will start training in Nairobi. Actually she joined the school I think two days ago. So to answer your question directly we need that ladder. And I think the federation should not look at us as a sampling block. Even if they should look at us as the main feeders. Otherwise those federation cannot exist without the secondary school. So structures are very key. Very vital. The big question will be Tuarism, beach volleyball. How they embrace it so far. This is one of the sweet things about beach volleyball. One, you are free to play almost near let me not say it, that is one. So if you don't require they may not be accused by the Akorino. You don't need the Akorino after the bottom. You may need a small whatever and a t-shirt. And then you go to go. And in this context we are saying the uniform does not cost a lot. The establishment of beach coat can be done anywhere. Three lorries are enough. And then you go to go. Then tourism as you have said. Any hotel along the coastal region that is of a certain whatever you will not miss a beach coat. Don't forget that even the minister when he took over he invited us in Chesbey and we were able to establish a beach coat there. And one advantage on the western side is the sunset. Now when you are in those areas the Dunga beach and the Chesbey when you are playing and the sun is just looking at the horizon it feels beautiful I'm telling. The experience is marvelous. And very many hotels are embracing this one. We have talked to Ramada hotel. They have their branch in Malindi. They want to start like yesterday. Tamarin they want to start like yesterday. And it is associated with tourism. And for the international championships and probably continental competitions are there any this particular year as we are talking as I'm talking to you I'm just receiving a fixture from the gentleman in charge of beach volleyball in Nigeria and you can see the program that has been given by the world body and then it has cascaded to the CAVB. From the CAVB now we shall have to look at the seven zones the seven zones which will do the activity between now and June. And immediately after that they will start their program for Olympic 2024. And that will be the major question because we did Tokyo we are there we debuted at Tokyo now Paris we have to be there how do we how are those preparations because it's just a year away. The preparation has already started with the knock and sometimes we give devil his due because they have even appointed their officers. Yes, yes. And they are very responsible young lady by name Waji. These are responsible Kenyans and we hope they are going to form structures and start engaging the federation for the preparation of these teams. Let's not wait for the seven days that will be sponsored by the government. The earlier we move and have very many homorogated tours in all the games better for us so that way even the seven days will just be the filing of the final panga for the preparation of slaughtering those other African countries. So to answer your question directly plans are underway and we are embracing every minute including the one that you are going to Mubasa right now. It is whoever wins there for not just all African games but also for 20-24. But what uncles you have got is when I look at the coaches only know Mulengi that's the big name We have a thousand and one coaches in this country in fact I can name names here in fact the only thing that we do not have we only have one referee. Okay, yes. So that's an avenue for people to come in. We had planned for a major course for coaching and a referee in this country where we would have very many of our referees participating because of the bad politics bad politics of we want to stay young for the rest of our lives and that's what is actually aiding this game here and if you are not very careful we might be on a free fall earlier the delegates decided we supposed to leave them better for us and I do not want to go into the internal politics of Kenya volleyball preparation but said we must be able to embrace the fixture that we are receiving from FIVB by making sure that we shield the politics and we embrace the people participating. And another one I've got to be the marketing strategy because you've got sports I want to say here that our sponsorship in Mombasa on 18 is sponsored by Rotoment Rata Limited who are the distributors of Deep Freeze and named them and I want at this point in time to thank the MD of that big company including Mr. Machari the marketing manager and Madam Naomi for giving us another sponsorship for our young ones in Mombasa Yes 300,000 300,000 would be utilized properly because part of it is cash award for the winners the other bait is for the referees also for the teams and what are you we do not touch a coin we always make sure that the sponsor does get what he has given we have got other companies that might come in like Coca-Cola giving us water we have, we are talking quietly with Relibu and we are also, yes we are also talking to the county government of Mombasa we have written to the governor the new governor of Mombasa if he sends us the minister to open up the activities of the 80 then we shall invite a number of hotel owners along the Koso Strip and we are zeroing in on one gentleman by the name Shitaka who was the former chairman of the hotel I mean the hotel owners association who will also come and see what we are doing at least they can embrace that idea you know Omaro told us one thing this is what we are looking for so in terms of having capable athletes to represent the country in beach volleyball we have heard those who did us proud during Tokyo Olympics are we putting in place structures that would transition the young ones into better people at the national level just like you have said that we as leaders that we were challenged by the minister that any leader what he salt has to make sure that he I mean he brings in other people to take over positions same with volleyball here I like the way Kondensia Makoha and even Brachidis embrace the young ones in fact they normally go to train young ones on their own and doing it at this point in time yes promono at this point in time I have to pay up to salute the two girls they even when we were in Italy for world championship shop that whatever they got they went into a sport station in Italy bought the little beach volleyball yes then they had to invest back and that is the kind of leadership that we want in this country it is not about what I put in the pocket it is about what we are able to bring up and to me we have a proper leadership in beach volleyball and I have said I want to thank that team the team of Meningi the team of Oino the Kondensia of this world and Oduri who has been the captain of the beach volleyball team don't forget that one of the best the two boys that we had in Algadiu they are now professional volleyball players in one in Japan the other one in Egypt and that is what we want we are very proud of from this conversation we get a feeling beach volleyball in Kenya is really very bright very bright that one you can take it to the bank and there will be nothing like bouncing God forbid God give us time to live to see what we are talking about and we hope wherever also takes up the position of Mugia for the beach volleyball information please try to lift it up and let's have more of beach of world championship more of olympics continental there is nothing as sweet as imagine the best in Africa in the presence of the king of morocco it is a very big privilege and that's why I'm saying thank you our coaches, thank you our athletes thank you our managers those who help us are oil this engine because the pistols for beach volleyball they are working like that one of Mercedes Benz oh it's fun to interview one man who has been really advocating for growth of overall football overall volleyball in the country and he has engaged himself beyond volleyball doing other sports like he mentioned swimming as well and talking about you know outside they call you official opposition because of you have pushed for reforms at KBF now there is this but you can knock national sports council now I contested for the president of national sports council and out of 24 I got 11 people listen to me and what I want to say it is not just a position but now voice of reason yes yes whatever I say does it hold water shall we one time be accountable whichever government comes shall we what we are doing now and as we have said the future depends on sacrifice made in the past those who have sacrificed for their own pocket a time will come and they will be screened by a proper telescope of the day so it is not about being an opposition it is just stating the truth and supplying the truth hearts that way as chairman of Nairobi branch we have also engaged a number of sponsors we hope that the britain will come in on board and help the Nairobi branch because the games are in Utah so we would like to replace the Utah teams and also the senior teams and not forgetting too that as we have said that the other games have been being the secretary of Nairobi secondary school post transition we have more than 11 discipline the swimming and I remember that Nairobi managed to take the bulk of the teams in East African games in Arusha the badminton, the table tennis and we have also some of those federation like the table tennis they have embraced some of us they have given us the role of development officers so we are able to establish a number of tables in Nairobi for example you've been able to donate tables in Lenaana, been able to donate tables in Ushirika secondary school they made the opening one in the hospital we are giving bats for the young ones to start because if we are not very careful Uganda is moving at a very serious pace yes and they have very nice youth programs so we might be sitting back here thinking that we are a giant only to realize soon and very soon the opposite of a giant is what whatever you want let's roll it secretly for us so you are parting short your final submissions regarding the future of the sport overall ambition of those youngsters and even the legends like Gaudensia I want to say this now that a new constitution may be nothing those who are also going to be athletes to be let's have the lights of Kandensia and Black cities and number two we want to thank our sponsors continued sponsors because if Kenya available for tuition right now doesn't have money so if we didn't get the sponsorship from it would have been very difficult for us to host the last one and for the program in Africa we are going to follow it we ask the ministry to aid us where we can particularly the tours but we want to have more of those homorogated tours in Kenya let the Ugandans come and the last one we can also have Kenya to come we can also have Oikap why not? it's been a pleasure having you on board thank you for coming through and all the very best even as you keep pushing for reforms and overall development of the sport so this particular year again we look forward to celebrating like we did at Tokyo Olympics you know we are starting now we are saying by June we shall have known who is going where so even the Wachezad you have told them the ball is in your court we are giving the sponsorship not to worry about it Santisana Moses Moodiag the chairman for Kenya beach volleyball commission joining us this particular afternoon to share his insights regarding the sport and what the future holds for the beautiful game that he is attracting a lot of interest from several Kenyans it's been a pleasure doing this every saturday from 1 to 3 continue talking to us even at the end of the show at touchline Y25 at Wasike Maxwell at Osoro Bats and of course we want to wish you a blessed weekend and a fantastic sporting enjoyment