{"id":4438,"date":"2023-08-21T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2023-08-21T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:15:09","slug":"counties-ready-to-rumble-at-the-kicosca-2023-games-in-meru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/counties-ready-to-rumble-at-the-kicosca-2023-games-in-meru","title":{"rendered":"COUNTIES READY TO RUMBLE AT THE KICOSCA 2023 GAMES IN MERU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kenya Inter-Counties Sports and Cultural Association games foster a sense of cohesion and provide cross-cultural comradeship, which is hinged to an efficient public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council of Governors chair of the Sports Committee, Simon Kachapin said this on Monday as he opened the 2023 games at Kinoru Stadium in Meru County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-id=\"4442\" src=\"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-21-at-5.44.54-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4442\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-id=\"4440\" src=\"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-08-21-at-5.44.56-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4440\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The West Pokot Governor underlines Kicosca as quite advantageous to injecting motivation into public service personnel. He said friendship created at the games is healthy in service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On her part, host Governor Kawira Mwangaza noted that the games are a catalyst for talent development and sports promotion in Kenyan public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0Athletics, football, basketball, volleyball, darts, golf, volleyball, pool, and tug of war are some of the competitions in this year&#8217;s edition themed Elevating Devolution through sports and culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The County Government of Uasin Gishu has been dominating the podium at previous editions of the games. The week-long competition in Meru will culminate in the selection of the national team for the East Africa Local Authorities Sports and Cultural Association (EALASCA) games later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenya Inter-Counties Sports and Cultural Association games foster a sense of cohesion and provide cross-cultural comradeship, which is hinged to an efficient public service. Council of Governors chair of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,4,7,50,51,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-city-news","category-community","category-government","category-governors-office","category-ict-and-sports","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasingishu.go.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}