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Ethiopia’s star athlete Kenenisa Bekele to build 9.9 million Birr sport complex

June 11th, 2007 |

Fiche, Ethiopia (ENA) – The renowned athlete Kenenisa Bekele here on Friday signed an agreement providing for constructing a 9.9 million Birr sport complex in Sululta Woreda with the North Shoa Zone Investment Office
Kenenisa Bekele

Kenenisa Bekele

According to the signed agreement, the complex that would be constructed in stated woreda would provide various services.

The complex would be constructed on 50 hectares of land.

The complex comprises a football and golf fields, a swimming pool, athletics track as well as modern hotel that would give quality service for Ethiopians and foreigners, among others.

Kenenisa told Ethiopian News Agency that the complex would serve the local communities to spend their spare time playing various sport games.

Kenenisa said and the complex would create 125 jobs when goes operational after two years.

Chief of the North Shoa Zone administration, Tesfaye Tulu on the occasion said Kenenisa’s initiative would lure athletes and investors to engage in the sector.

Some 400 investors with an aggregated capital of 8.5 billion Birr are operating are undertaking various development projects, he said.

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