Kenya ready to host 10th edition of Tong IL Moo Do

All is set and Kenya is ready to host the 10th edition of the Tong-Il Moodo, the national federation president Master Clarence Mwakio has said.

Mwakio says over 40 countries have confirmed their participation at the event that will take place at the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa.

He added he hopes Kenya will emerge winners and singled out competition from Philippines and DRC Congo.

“We lobbied for an international tournament that we wanted to either in Nairobi or Mombasa but because of the huge following in Mombasa and the city being a major tourist attraction and we thought we could use the event to market Kenya as a major tourist attraction,” Mwakio said.

The federation chief added that they have held consultative conversations with the Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba who pledged his support.

“We had a very fruitful meeting with the sports cabinet secretary where we introduced the game to him and he was very happy with the progress and promised support for the growth of the sport in the country,” Mwakio added.

Mwakio also insisted they have plans to introduce the game to schools and universities and also promised to take the competition to the rest of the country.

“We will introduce it to the primary and secondary schools then eventually to the universitys , currently we are investing in training  enough instructors because we want to train different sets of groups so all these sets need professionally trained instructors,” the federation president told Citizen Digital.

The competition will begin on December 10th to 18th in Mombasa.