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    "id": 1034161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Tuitoek",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kamuren Tuitoek",
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    "content": "Kenya is known for sports, especially athletics. I know we have not done very well in soccer and others, but we are coming up. The unfortunate part of this issue is that we have been promised quality high level stadia but, apparently, when you look at the Report of the Committee, most of the stadia have achieved between 25 to 40 per cent completion in spite of a lot of money being spent on them. The amount of money advanced to the contractors ranges from 45 to 60 per cent. It is noted that the quality of those stadia is way below the standards. This should be an indictment on the public works which is supposed to assist in supervision and assessment and even signing of the completion certificates at various stages. It is unfortunate that certificates were awarded when the level of work was below standard. As people have said, whenever contractors are given money to mobilise, they divert it to other activities. This is an area the Committee has pointed out strongly and action should be taken because we cannot keep on wasting public money or taxpayers’ money on things that do not help us. Having listened to Hon. Charles Nguna contributing and almost crying, he has told us that those who were able to visit the stadia saw the quality and the amount of the work done to be way below the standards. It is not comparable to the amount of money which was given. There are a few stadia that have been outstanding. I have seen Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega which looks a bit better. Nyayo National Stadium was renovated. Kasarani does not look very good although, when it hosted the Under-18 International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) championship, they renovated the carpet on the track. Otherwise, most of the other facilities in that particular stadium are not up to standard. In this particular case, I would like to say that action should be taken against the Ministry. In fact, if the Ministry cannot supervise those particular stadia, we need to find other ways because we cannot continue pouring taxpayers’ money on things that we cannot see the reality of. If at this stage none of the stadia has been completed, then I also agree with the Members who said that we can reduce... We should actually vote for enough money for a project to be brought from start to completion. There is no point to start about 10 projects which cannot all be completed. So, we should be reasonable in this Chamber when we pass those budgets. We need to critically get the committees to advise us, on the Floor, that we should approve a certain number of stadia; not all of them. Secondly, nowadays, we have the county governments. We also want them to start constructing their own stadia. We cannot wait to rely on the national Government. We should give county governments grants so that they can start constructing those stadia. We need to advocate that those stadia be constructed in every sub-county or in most of our constituencies because we have many youths who want to participate in different types of sports. Some want to play football, others basketball, volleyball, and all the other sports, including even track events. So, I beg to support this Report. 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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