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"content": "Hon. Dawood."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am not satisfied with the answer that the Cabinet Secretary has given because I talked to him earlier on, on the same issue. I brought up this issue in the last Parliament. It is as if the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports wants to avoid the issue by saying that there was no commitment yet there was a written commitment by Sports Kenya. Sports Kenya is the entity that was constructing Kinoru Stadium. While constructing it, they demolished a few offices and they promised that in the process of constructing the stadium, they would build Kinoru Police Post, which is gazetted and has been in existence for long. There was a meeting in July 2021 with the then Governor Kiraitu Murungi, and the then Cabinet Secretary, Amb. Amina Mohamed, together with the Principal Secretary, where they agreed that the county government would provide land and the Ministry would provide the funds. Hon. Speaker, I am not asking for funds. If they cannot allocate the funds to the NG- CDF, I urge them to construct the infrastructure which they had promised. We already have land from Kinoru Primary School because the land which was being offered by the county government was on a sewage plant for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. Therefore, it is not conducive. While the Cabinet Secretary is constructing the stadium, I want him to include the police post as part of the works of the Kinoru Stadium. They have still not handed over the stadium although some places in the stadium are now worn out. The running track is in a pathetic state at the moment but that is not my concern for now. Secondly, I want to convert the youth centre into an Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre. I do not have an issue with it. When they were constructing the stadium, they specifically wanted to demolish the youth centre but I opposed the idea. I told them that we could not waste Government money. I am not asking for relocation of the youth centre. I have asked for the land where the youth centre is standing to be excised from the stadium land and given to the County Commissioner so that I can construct a gate through the NG-CDF and construct the ICT hub. After talking to other Members, I do not think it will help me. The Cabinet Secretary should agree that the land is not part of the stadium so that I can follow up the process of having the land registered in the name of the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. Hon. Speaker, I do not think the Cabinet Secretary can escape the commitment that had been made in writing. We need the offices of the Assistant County Commissioner (ACC), the chief, the police post and the agreed accommodation units for the police officers. The Cabinet Secretary can invest that money in the stadium because those offices are part of the stadium."
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"content": "Cabinet Secretary, you have heard the discourse from the Member."
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"content": "Hon. Ababu Namwamba): Hon. Speaker, I have not made any attempt whatsoever to run away from the commitment. In fact, I confirmed that, indeed, there is a commitment to my credit. I just made a clarification that when this commitment was made in 2017, about seven years ago, it was made without a matching resource allocation. We acknowledge that this is an important The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "project. In fact, let me confirm to the House that it is the policy of the Ministry that any space with a sports facility of the scale of Kinoru Stadium should be serviced by a police post. It should have the capacity to house security apparatus within the ecosystem of the stadium. There is a commitment. I can assure the Member that efforts will be made to get the resources. There is also the challenge of land. The county government had allocated some land for this purpose. The Hon. Member should reach a consensus with the county government in terms of the actual land location for this project. Because Government is an ongoing concern, as soon as resources become available, the stadium will be constructed. Even though this is a commitment by a previous administration, the current administration inherits those commitments. They are commitments that should be carried forward. With regard to the youth empowerment centre, again, let me make it clear that this is a different administration with different priorities. This administration would certainly not support the earlier attempt to pull down this centre. The approach we have taken for this kind of infrastructure is integration and composite development where we can have a stadium and other facilities for creatives where young people can engage in music, film, ICT and innovation. Therefore, there is absolutely nothing wrong to have a stadium, recording studios and an innovation centre. We can have that whole ecosystem integrated. If I have heard the Hon. Member right, he said that the land on which this centre stands should be excised and delineated from the land of the stadium. That is possible. The land actually belongs to the county government. That is a process which the Ministry would certainly support. We would not be averse to that, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Thank you. We leave it there, Hon. Dawood. We will go to Question 231 of 2023 by Hon. Duncan Mathenge, Member for Nyeri Town."
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"content": "Question 231/2023"
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"content": "PROGRESS OF THE MINISTRY’S POLICY TO STOP CONSTRUCTION OF NEW STADIA ACROSS THE COUNTRY"
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.(6)(b), could the Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports — (a) explain the scope of the Ministry’s Policy stopping the construction of new stadia across the country and whether such policy meant suspension of completion of stadia whose construction had started? (b) provide the status of the construction, including the expected date of completion of Ruring’u Stadium in Nyeri County, Nyeri Town Constituency, the cost of the project and amount of money already spent thereof? (c) state the reasons for the delay in completion of Ruring’u Stadium considering its upgrade was launched six years ago, and state the loss suffered by the local community as a result of the delay? (d) outline measures that the government shall take into account so that in future, stadia are completed as scheduled and the funds allocated thereof are utilized prudently? Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Mathenge. Proceed, Cabinet Secretary."
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