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    "id": 1034141,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Nguna",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Ngusya Nguna",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I am a member of the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism. I have also participated in East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) games and won 12 gold medals for this Parliament. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was part of the Members who actively inspected the status of stadia in our county. We started with Nyayo Stadium, Ruring’u Stadium, Karatu Stadium and other places like Kamariny Stadium and Kipchoge Keino Stadium. The Report was so damning. The findings can drive me into tears. Anyway, let me not weep at this moment because of the status of our stadia. One of the key issues we wanted to investigate as a Committee was the allocation of the stadia to several regions. If you look at the names that I have mentioned here, majority of those stadia were just built in Eastern, Rift Valley and Central provinces, leaving out the other regions like Coast, Western, Nyanza and North Eastern. If at all we have the objective of promoting sports and youth talents, we have to be fair and follow what the President guided us on, in building the stadia in the different regions. Let me confess that I am totally disappointed with the manner in which the stadia were distributed. We cannot have three stadia in the former Eastern Province, three in Rift Valley and the rest of the places where we get talent in football like in Western there is no single stadium that was allocated. I am passionately talking this way bearing in mind that I come from the former Eastern Province. This is very bad and corruption must be condemned when it comes to resource allocation in this country."
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