Irene Wekesa: 'Why I'm best fit for AFC Leopards SG role'

AFC Leopards Secretary General aspirant Irene Sitawa Wekesa has promised to revamp the club’s administration including upgrading the communication department, ensuring an improved players and members’ welfare and appointing an experienced CEO, if elected.

Sitawa has also echoed Chairman aspirants Boniface Ambani and Enos Mutoka’s sentiments that time is nigh to return the club to its lost glory days.

Sitawa is battling it out against Isaac Mulindi Mulanda and Robert Khamala Situma. The polls will be held on Sunday at Kasarani Stadion Hotel Ballroom with 2,706 members set to cast their votes.

“The first assignment is to revamp the administration including upgrading our communication department by hiring people on merit and not by reward.

We also should be able to appoint an experienced Chief Executive Officer as well as targeting to win league titles which have been elusive for over 25 years now,”Sitawa said in her campaigns ahead of Sunday vote.

The Webuye-born business development and strategic partnerships officer says her involvement in Leopards for the last 15 years gives her an edge for the job.

“I have been at Leopards for 15 years not just as a fan but as a very active member. I have worked day and night and been at fore-front in ensuring I offer help to Leopards by doing my best.

I have enough and much needed experience,” she enthused, “My current job will soften everything if I become the next SG, because I am currently in communication development and strategic planning, by profession,” Sitawa told Citizen Digital.

Sitawa, Mulindi and Situma are seeking to succeed Caroline Walusaga who is serving on interim basis following the demise of Gilbert Andugu.