Sports CS Ababu Namwamba shares Talanta Sports City’s construction progress
Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, inspected the progress of Talanta Sports Centre in Jamhuri.
The sports complex whose construction is currently underway aims to be the best football stadium ever built after Nyayo and Kasarani stadia.
Upon completion, Talanta Sports City is expected to host 60,000 football fans and is expected to compete side by side with the best football stadia in the world according to CS Ababu Namwamba.
CS Ababu Inspection
In a video shared by the Cabinet Secretary, several construction workers are seen all over the project site as military officers check progress with contractors.
Step by step. Good progress... pic.twitter.com/CzamvukyS1
— Hon Ababu-Namwamba, EGH🇰🇪 (@AbabuNamwamba) May 21, 2024
During the groundbreaking ceremony of the stadium in March, President William Ruto directed the late Chief of Defense Forces General Francis Ogolla and CS Ababu Namwamba to ensure weekly inspections of the upcoming facility's progress.
Ruto stated that the stadium is to meet world-class standards hence the need to involve the military to ensure discipline. He added that all set timelines will have to be met.
"I have agreed with the ministries, and that is why the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Defence are also represented here because we want this stadium to be built to world-class standard using military discipline," Ruto said in March 2024. 
"I will expect our defence team, Aden Duale, the CDF and the team to make sure all the timelines we have agreed are kept by the contractor and I expect that there will be supervision every week, every two weeks and I will be here myself every three months until this facility is completed," the president added.
The stadium is set to be completed in December 2025 ahead of the AFCON competitions that will be held in the region jointly with Kenya's neighbours Tanzania and Uganda.
Kenya is in a race to beat the deadlines to co-host the AFCON tournament in the next two years, with Nyayo stadium being ruled out for failing to meet standards.
The 40-year-old stadium missed the mark after it was determined that the changing rooms could not be reconstructed. However, renovations are on course to give it a facelift.
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