{"id":81226,"date":"2023-01-22T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:03:40","slug":"nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off","title":{"rendered":"Nyong&#8217;o rewards Kisumu County&#8217;s Kicosca team two days off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Kisumu Governor Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o has granted the county team to the 2023 Kenya Inter County Sports and Cultural Association (KICOSCA) Games two days off.<\/p>\n<p>Kisumu finished second overall after defending champions Nairobi. In a statement, Nyong\u2019o congratulated his players, trainers and managers and revealed that they will be away on Monday and Tuesday to rest and celebrate a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>During the week-long games, Kisumu won golf, handball men, netball, basketball men, and men\u2019s tug of war titles and finished second in handball women and Baganda dance. The hosts finished third in women\u2019s basketball and ajua.<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi retained the overall title with 31 points followed by Kisumu ( 18 ), Bungoma ( 14 ) and Kiambu (11). Bomet, Kajiado, Homa Bay, County Provident Fund and Devolution did not get any point. Turkana and Tana River counties participated for the first time. Uasin Gishu retained the overall and women\u2019s athletics titles while Nairobi bagged the men\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Kicosca men\u2019s winners Kakamega (football), Kisumu (basketball), Uasin Gishu (volleyball), Kisumu (tug of war), Kisumu (handball), Mombasa (draught), Nairobi (ajua), Busia (scrabble), Nairobi (chess), Nairobi (darts), Kiambu (tricycle), Kiambu (pool), Kiambu (table tennis), Nairobi (squash), Murang\u2019a (badminton).<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s category, the winners were Kisumu (netball), Nairobi (basketball), Nairobi (volleyball), Kisii (tug of war), Samburu (tricycle) and Siaya (handball). West Pokot retained the East Africa Local Authorities (EALASCA) cultural dance while Bungoma won the cultural dance and Narok the folksong title. Nairobi emerged winners in choir set piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Kisumu Governor Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o has granted the county team to the 2023 Kenya Inter County Sports and Cultural Association (KICOSCA) Games two days off. Kisumu finished second overall after defending champions Nairobi. In a statement, Nyong\u2019o congratulated his players, trainers and managers and revealed that they will be away on Monday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":81223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-81226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nyong&#039;o rewards Kisumu County&#039;s Kicosca team two days off - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kisumu Governor Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o has granted the county team to the 2023 Kenya Inter County Sports and Cultural Associati ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nyong&#039;o rewards Kisumu County&#039;s Kicosca team two days off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kisumu Governor Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o has granted the county team to the 2023 Kenya Inter County Sports and Cultural Associati ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-22T15:51:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-22T16:03:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674390101.30.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"721\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nyong&#8217;o rewards Kisumu County&#8217;s Kicosca team two days off\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-22T15:51:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-22T16:03:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off\"},\"wordCount\":269,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674390101.30.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nyongo-rewards-kisumu-countys-kicosca-team-two-days-off\",\"name\":\"Nyong'o rewards Kisumu County's Kicosca team two days off - 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