By Chisomo Phiri
One of Africa’s leading Insurance companies CIC Life Insurance company has pumped in K15 million Kwacha Sponsorship to Northern Region-based football club Moyale Barracks widely known as ‘ Lions of Kaning’ina to help them effectively participate in various soccer completions.
Unveiling the sponsorship at Moyale Officers Mess on Saturday afternoon, the Managing Director Chris Mugwang’a said the package is just the beginning of good things to come.
Mugwang’a challenged the football team to atleast fight for championship if not in top 5.
“This is just the beginning because as a company we also have a strategic plans that we can use in the Sponsorship. It is a close to K15 million Kwacha and we are going to sponsor in levels and stages that’s why we said we have a strategic plans, this also a motivation to the players and to the leaders as well, we set a target so that the team should atleast end in top 5 in the league, and the Sponsorship is for this season only and will extend depend on the relationship between leaders and the company,” said Mugwang’a.
In his remarks, Moyale Barracks Commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Thokozani Chazema thanked CIC for coming in as the team is looking for more stakeholders to support the sports at the Barracks.
“We are grateful with the coming in of CIC, considering the fact that many companies are shunning away from sports and we are expecting a lot from the team especially in the league which we have never won, it is always an objective for Moyale to win the league and we are also expecting more goals to be scored, though we are not yet there but I challenge the team to do better to win to the championship as far as Superleague is concerned,” Chazema said.
During the event, CIC also presented a Jersey the football team as part of the Sponsorship.
Before the Sponsorship unveiling, CIC firstly partnered Moyale Barracks soldiers in the ‘Go Konko’ Fitness Challenge at Katoto Sports courts where they conducted some Aurobics and other games where people won different prizes from CIC.
CIC is the general and life insurance company that operates in four countries in Southern Africa namely Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan and Malawi.
