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    "id": 1034207,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank the Members who have contributed to this Report. After listening to them, it is quite obvious that value for money was not realised in the whole exercise of building those stadia. Sporting is a major income earner in this country. We should learn from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Look at Dubai. Despite them having oil or petroleum, they no longer use it for their national income. They have diversified to the service industry. Dubai receives more tourists than the whole of Africa. This is a service industry. How is Kenya unable to embrace such and particularly sporting when we have natural talent? We had an opportunity, as a country, to build stadia. I want to thank the President for setting aside a budget for eight regional stadia and four Africa Nations Championships (CHAN) stadia. But because of mismanagement or notwithstanding the corruption in this country, in our Report we have indicated that briefcase contractors were the order of the day. You cannot give a contractor a contract of Kshs300 million and they cannot show their financial muscle. Again, when a contractor is given a mobilisation fee of up to 50 per cent. I do not know what you are telling us! That we have paid upfront 50 per cent of taxpayer’s money! That is glaring corruption. I have listened to Members and they are saying we should go ahead and have the culpable persons or civil servants meet the punishment that is applicable. I think the culture that we have formed in this country is very negative for our youths because, if those stadiums were built, I imagine the number of youths that would be in those fields playing and participating today. Even as Members say that we have many sports, what we are looking at in those stadia is to be used as academies of all sports, be it swimming, water games or even archery. I think we can attain a lot. Without much ado, I want to thank my Committee and the Members who visited those stadia all over Kenya. I want to say that this is our Report and I hope as Parliament, we will look for ways of implementing these reports. If we do not implement these reports, it will be a story of yesterday. We need to go a step ahead and see how the implementation… If there is loss and taxpayers’ money need to be recovered... In serious countries that are fighting corruption, accounts are being frozen and anybody found culpable is blacklisted from any civil service employment. So, I think we should have stern measures and serious punishment to law breakers. 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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