Deputy President William Ruto is among the Kenyans who have taken to social media to congratulate Esse Akida after he sealed a dream transfer to Besiktas on Monday.
Akida put pen to paper a deal to feature for the Turkish giants from FC Ramat HaSharon of Israel, a club she has been serving since 2018.
Akida has been a member of the Harambee Starlets squad since 2012 and scored in the Africa Women's Cup of Nations against Ghana in the finals held in Cameroon in 2016.
In the 2018 qualifiers, she also found the back of the net against Equatorial Guinea but the Central African country qualified for the biennial tournament at the expense of Akida and her teammates.