One cannot drive a Bugatti in a slum and call it progress. Building a stadium is one thing; having an economy and sporting industry capable of sustaining its running costs is another. The international events you’ve invoked don’t simply arrive because there’s a well-run stadium. International hosting involves government commitments and guarantees covering infrastructure and other requirements, alongside public funding and institutional support. An event taking place in Nyayo is not, by itself, evidence of a commercially sustainable stadium market. Who finances the event, what does the venue actually receive, and what remains after costs? Then there’s the private investor you imagine stepping in. Who are their customers? Domestic clubs already struggling to fund their operations? International events whose delivery depends partly on state support? Where would the revenue needed to recover construction costs and sustain operations come from? More fundamentally, stadiums in Kenya are political assets. Their returns include visibility, patronage and legitimacy. Financial losses can coexist with political gains—which helps explain why governments keep building them. A private entrant would therefore need both sufficient paying demand and room to compete with politically backed facilities. Poor maintenance establishes neither. Yep, demanding accountability for how the stadiums are managed is valid. But assuming there’s a profitable private stadium business waiting to happen skips the political economy sustaining these facilities.