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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. How times change. When Sen. Murkomen was the Senate Majority Leader, he would never allow a question about how stadiums were. I am happy that he has now seen the light and knows that there are no stadiums. This question is very important. I urge my distinguished nephew to broaden the scope of inquiry not only to football matters, but sports in this country. The FKF is now limping. Instead of getting support, we are embarking on punitive and malicious investigations against it. I want us to be told how much money has been set aside for football in this country, how much is going to the FKF and its grassroots branches. We have many teams that play in the second tier football and they are really struggling when there is a budget line to support football. In addition, I encourage my distinguished nephew, the Senator for Nairobi City County, to also look at the management of athletics and explain to this country and this House why mandarins of athletics fly using first class to the Olympics while our gold winning athletes travel using economy class and are given small pittance and put in dormitories while non-runners are staying in five star hotels. Other countries taking athletes to the Olympics and the Commonwealth World games, treat the athletes like national heroes. Our athletes bring fame and glory to this country through personal initiative without support from the state. We want to have a blueprint and a policy statement from a Committee that is chaired by a very illustrious nephew to yours truly. These things must change. Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank you."
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