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    "id": 1034185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kasarani, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Mercy Wanjiku",
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        "legal_name": "Mercy Wanjiku Gakuya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report and I commend the Committee for the good job on the inquiry of the status of stadia in Kenya. It is unfortunate that sports are still regarded as an extra curriculum activity: they are not taken seriously. When things to do with health and education become worse, the whole country rises up not to condemn the people who have not done the right thing. Unfortunately, we are talking today but as locals, we do not support our local teams. We do not support our local players. People are happy to be associated with Liverpool, Manchester and Arsenal football clubs. So, we will keep on complaining. If you look at the local games that are played at Nyayo Stadium, Kasarani Stadium and elsewhere, very few Kenyans support them. Yet, in the evenings, they go to watch the international leagues. They call them many things. It is high time we considered our youth. Sports help them to nurture their talents and use their time well. In this country, we have not focused on many things that are relevant to the youth like sports and jobs. The only thing we are telling our youth to do is to become business men and women. When we ask them what they do and they say they do not have jobs, we tell them to apply for money to start businesses. We are grooming our children to become business persons. The trend that is there is of corruption. The generations that will come will be full of business persons. We only have consumers and not producers. Until we become value-based as a country and know what is right and correct, we will be a House of complaining all the time. It will be like we do not know our powers and how far we can go. Sometimes, when you find a contractor misbehaving or not doing what he is supposed to do, you do not blame them. They could be doing that because 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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