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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. This very important Bill sets out to harmonize the anti-doping legislation of 2016 with the current developments in the world of sports. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the WADA has been struggling the world over in trying to bring sanity and discipline in the sporting activities of the world. Many times, athletes have fallen victim to situations beyond their control. With the changing times and improving technologies, we have had situations of rogue countries that have had official national sanctioned activities of doping their sports men and women to get fraudulent and fake superiority and supremacy in athletics. None in this House understands that better than the distinguished Senator for Kisii, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri with whom we have worked on some of these issues before. You may recall in the old days during the communist-capitalist competitions, a country that is no longer there now called East Germany used to be the epicenter of doping athletes. They would take to the world games such as Olympic athletes that used to run like machines. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri may remember the famous lady called Marita Koch who used to run in super human form. It has turned out that some of those athletes were, in fact, literally genetically engineered to run. We have had situations even in countries that we all copy from like the United States of America (USA) whose athletes have been involved in doping. The famous sprinter from the USA who was smashing record after record ended up being disgraced and stripped off all the medals that he had been awarded in various games. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Bill comes at a time when Kenya as a power-house in athletics, particularly has been suffering some very poor imaging because of our athletes The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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