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The first of its kind, the Pan African Youth Scrabble Championship Trophy Tour which began in Accra, Ghana on Sunday will be heading to two Kenyan cities of Eldoret and Nairobi on Friday.
A very elated President of the Pan African Scrabble Association (PANASA), Adekoyejo Adegbesan, said, “I’m leaving Accra the Ghanian capital a very happy and satisfied man because of the way the Dr. Mrs. Winifred Awosika AYSC Trophy Tour went.
The Dr. Mrs. Winifred Awosika AYSC Trophy was received on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana by the Scrabble fraternity in Ghana led by the President of Scrabble Association of Ghana (SAG), Haruna Adamu.
On the second day of the Trophy Tour, Monday a mini scrabble tournament was held in Tema, in honour of the former World Scrabble Champion, Wellington Jighere who was part of the tour delegation.
It was the turn of top Ghanaian Government officials led by that country’s Minister of Youth and Sports Honourable Mustapha Ussif and his Deputy and the Deputy general of Ghana Sports Authority among other notable sporting figures to receive the Trophy.
On Wednesday and Thursday the Trophy Tour took the Pan African Scrabble Association delegation (PANASA) to some selected schools before closing the day at the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) where they met with the President, Ben Nunoo Mensah.
Besides the Trophy Tour, the PANASA President, Adekoyejo Adegbesan, used the meeting with the Ghana Olympic Committee boss, Ben Nunoo Mensah and the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee of the All African Games, Ofosu Asare, to drum up the call for both the French and English version of the game of Scrabble to feature as a demonstration sport during the 2024 All African Games that Ghana is hosting.
From Accra, the Dr. Mrs. Winifred Awosika AYSC Trophy Tour will be heading to Eldoret and Nairobi in Kenya for the second leg of its African tour on Friday.
Already, the sporting authority and the Scrabble family in that East African State have concluded all the needed and necessary arrangements for a hitch free and equally exciting Trophy Tour starting with the city of Eldoret.
Eldoret is a renown city of sporting legends, champions, heros and heroines like David Rudisha, Kipchoge Keino, Leah Mallot, Eliud Kipchoge and recently the London marathon crowned king Kevin Kiptum.
On arrival the President of PANASA, Adekoyejo Adegbesan and the former World Champion, Wellington Jighere, will be received at the Eldoret International Airport by Uasin Gishu County Government Officials accompanied by the President Scrabble Kenya Kipkemboi Limo and the host John Sang.
The delegation will proceed to the Uasin Gishu County Government (UCG) headquarters for signing of visitor’s book and breakfast courtesy of Uasin Gishu County Government.
From there, the PANASA delegation will proceed to the venue of the Eldoret International Scrabble Tournament in company of the Uasin Gishu County Governor Jonathan Chelilim and the Kenya Sports Minister Engineer Lucy Njoroge.
Top wordsmith from Kenya, Uganda, Liberia and Nigeria led by two time African Champion, Wellington Jighere will be competing for honours at Eldoret Tournament which is part of the AYSC Trophy Tour that will be taking round some selected schools in Eldoret.
The Dr. Mrs. Winifred Awosika AYSC Trophy Tour of Eldoret will start on 5th and end and the 7th of May, 2023 before the Trophy Tour caravan move into Nairobi the Kenyan capital.
Liberia, Uganda and host Nigeria are the other countries that the AYSC Trophy will tour before the start of the Inaugural edition of the Pan African Youth Scrabble Championship holding at the Chrisland School Idimu-Lagos, Nigeria between the 24th and 28th of August, 2023.
Over a hundred and twenty children from 12 African countries are expected to compete for honours in two categories, U-15 and U-19 Championships with princely prizes on offer.
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