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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for complementing our own who is now the Vice-President of the United States of America (USA). I begin by thanking Sen. Omanga for coming up with this important Statement. When it comes to sporting activities, we need to know that sports plays a big role in the lives of people. Ordinarily, when teams come together for sporting activities, there is the spirit of team building and friendliness that is embraced, during that time. The spirit of endurance also comes in when people engage in sports. Additionally, we also experience cardiovascular benefits from sporting activities. When people are engaged in sports, they keep at bay diseases that are related to the heart and all that. Therefore, sporting activities help in a number of ways. It has to be very clear before the Senate that there are people who have been relying on sports for their daily living. During this COVID-19 pandemic, just as much as the tourism industry and other industries have gone down, sporting activities have also gone down. This has many negative effects on the sportsmen and women. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am glad that you are also a person with disability. You know very well what sportsmen and women who have disabilities go through. Some of them rely on sports for their daily living. However, they do not know what to do right now because they are frustrated. There is need for the Government to come up with a mechanism to ensure that sporting activities resume. Even when they resume, there is need for sportsmen and women to ensure that they observe COVID-19 protocols. The Government should come up with protocols, so that they know the rules that need to be observed. Apart from that, it has to be clear that sportsmen and women in this country have not been cushioned. I know quite a number of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) who have been bringing glory to this country through Paralympic athletics. They have talked to me many times saying that they are frustrated and they do not know what to do. There is need for the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare to ensure that they are pursuing this issue so that sports resume in this country. This is because there are so many people who are frustrated at the moment. Some of them are breadwinners and they do not know where to go. There is need for sportsmen and women to be cushioned handsomely. In addition, PwDs who engage in sports need to be cushioned during this COVID- 19 period."
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