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    "id": 1134458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "agriculture and sports. If our county governments cannot factor in funds in their budgets and ensure that the issue of sports is addressed, it is very unfortunate. A county like Nandi where if you go there - I know you are our neighbour and you even drive everywhere in the North Rift - whenever you drive, you see runners. Whenever you drive past a Centre, you see volleyball. When I organised a tournament early last month at Mosoriot, what we called First Heroes Volleyball Tournament that we were recognising volleyball heroes, you could see the potential of many young people. The only question they continue to ask all of us, as leaders, and county government, is where are the stadia, training grounds and the money that has been allocated t sports? Madam Deputy Speaker, the only sports tournaments that I have seen organised by the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NGCDF) and Members of Parliament (MPs) is in Nandi. However, when you ask the County Government of Nandi, they cannot even organise what I was told the other day is called woodball. That is where you play using woodball where a lot of money has been allocated. They cannot even organise a small village league yet Members of County Assembly (MCAs) across the country, especially in Nandi normally allocate money to sports. The two stadia like Nandi Hills Stadium and Kipchoge Keino Stadium, there is nothing to write home about. Millions of shillings have been spent. When you go there as I have said, especially in Kipchoge Keino Stadium, the grass is overgrown, and you get animals feeding there. It is substandard and no one can train there. That is why you find most of our athletes from Nandi County go to Uasin Gishu County at Kaptagat to train yet Nandi Hills and Kapsabet can be a good place. You know very well that most of the people who have run for this country trained in Nandi County because of the good conditions that we have. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to emphasise that it is timely. I hope there will be intervention even using Dandora Stadium. You know our cities even where all of us live especially here in Nairobi, there are no playing grounds. There is a disease in this country called “grabiosis”. Everybody has grabbed all empty fields. I do not know, but there is a problem in this country. Anybody who sees an empty field or something, the disease called “grabiosis” symptoms just crop in. That is in every estate that you go to in Nairobi. Whenever you are around during the weekend and drive especially through the southern and northern by-pass, you find families and their children playing along the by- pass and many accidents have happened. That is because in the estates, there are no playgrounds because they were grabbed. Madam Deputy Speaker, that is why a stadium like Dandora Stadium should be used and ensure it is up to standards so that the young people of Nairobi, children and adults who want to play can get a stadium where they can go and play and exploit their talents. We want to see footballers like Cristiano Ronaldo. We want to see Eliud Kipchoges of this world. We want to see volleyballers like the Malkia Strikers that we have. We want to see serious sportsmen and women in this Republic. That is why we were questioning the sports fund."
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