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"speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kivinda",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Report. As I support the Report, I am a disappointed man. In fact, as a country, we are killing the spirit of our youth. When we talk of those stadia in almost all the counties, we have a challenge. It is important to consider our youth because we know that majority of Kenyans are the youth. As my colleagues have said, the Government has not yet fulfilled most of the promises it made to Kenyans. I want to give an example of Wote Stadium in my county of Makueni. My constituency is just near the Wote Stadium. It was promised that the stadium would be done but, as we speak, there is nothing that you can show from that stadium. If that stadium can be done, youths from my constituency can take advantage of it and train there. We cannot say that our people are not good in sports. It is only that we do not have good stadia where they can train. For example, in Kaiti Constituency, the topography has made it very difficult to set up playgrounds. That is why if we can get just one good stadium, it can help our youth. They can meet there and do their practices while they are still young. When they grow, they can also do well in sports. So, we cannot say, as a country, that we are not good in sports because the problem is that we do not have the facilities, and it is a challenge to the Government. I also want to talk about corruption. Last time I said that, in Kenya, we are very good in making laws but their implementation is the problem. This is because when you see the Report, you will notice that the tendering process is also a challenge. We also need to streamline the tendering process. As a Government, we need to have a good and clear process of tendering. That is because if a tender was not done properly, it should be cancelled and someone else takes over from that contractor. The contractor may not be doing a good job because he or she may have been given the contract because of giving something small to win the tender. Those are the small things which are causing all those problems we are facing. As a lawmaker, it is very important to make sure that, as we give a solution to our people, we also try to make sure that we follow the law. We should include the period of payment in our Constitution like what I saw in the Building Bridges Initiative Report. That provision on the period of payment makes sense because some contractors are given jobs and they take centuries before they get their payments. It is also tiresome to the contractors. The youth of this country needs to see something being done on their stadia. It is high time the county governments took over and did the stadia. If each county can do like one or two stadia, it can be a good move in the country. As MPs, we are doing well with the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) because if you go to constituencies, there is something you can show. If we can change the Constitution and include some funds to the NG- CDF, and we are given that mandate, as MPs, we can do a good job. That is because if you go on the ground, you can see good classrooms and roads that are done through the NG-CDF. You have something that you can show. So, if we can include this in the NG-CDF so that all the constituencies are given an opportunity, that can also improve and help our youth. Finally, as I finish, let the nation take the mantle and help the youth of this country. I support. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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