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AFC Leopards have officially turned 60 with the club celebrating its birthday in a unique way, visiting the home of the founding father Mutoka in Shauri Moyo Estate, Nairobi.

The club began activities in the morning, with the main team, the Ingwe ladies team and the junior team visiting different Children’s homes to participate in CSR activities.

The first group led by Ingwe at 60 chairman Vincent Shimoli visited Wamo Childcare together with the main team.

In Kitusuru, club Patron Alexander Muteshi led the Ingwe team in visiting the Shangilia Mtoto wa Africa Children’s home where they celebrated the great day with the children. The third event of the day saw the Junior team visit Nile Road Special school.

The junior team then played a charity match with the Nile Special pupils before heading to Shauri Moyo where the celebration took place including a memorable cake cutting ceremony.

Club Patron Muteshi said,”We are glad as AFC Leopards family to celebrate this day at a very special place, here in Shauri Moyo.”

“This is the place that gave birth to this special team that continues to write history in the country,” he added.

“We lined have lined up couple of activities throughout the month and today we visited different children homes (Kitusuru, Kawangware and Nile Road) and in all occasions we had brief ceremonies which involved cake cutting,”

“We also have a series of events with the main event to be held on 24th of March at Nyayo stadium.”
Imgwe at 60 chairman who is also a former Ingwe player Vincent Shimoli said the club was going to take a new dimension after the celebration.

“We have had this long standing heritage and we intend to take it a notch higher especially after visiting this special place (Mutoka’s home.”

He urged the club to be self sustainable heading into the future.
“We want to be like our brothers at Simba and Simba. The younger generation needs to take the mantle and steer this team to greater heights. We don’t need to be fundraising every time, self reliance is very important in this era,” he added.

Club legend Josphat Murila praised the AFC Leopards hierarchy for organising this special event that brought together, the present, the past and the future.