NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 — Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has proposed the employment of top athletes in public service regardless of academic qualifications.
Speaking at the funeral of Kelvin Kiptum on Friday, the CS said the government should establish a framework for absorbing record-breaking athletes to become brand ambassadors in different government parastatals.
“There is no problem if we can absorb these athletes once they win their medals in the world. There is no problem to take them to government parastatals to become brand ambassadors and get them a job,” he urged President William Ruto.
“I want us to find a way that anyone who breaks a world record, it becomes mandatory to absorb them in our government,” he added.
The CS claimed education qualifications had shadowed the potential of athletes often denying their enormous contribution towards promoting the country.
“And sometimes we have over-glorified class education, to the extent that we deny these athletes opportunities to serve in government just because of lack of a paper,” he stated.
