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    "id": 1210651,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1210651/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support both Petitions. I wish to speak to the Petitions from the Senator of Lamu. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not serious about our resources. Sports in general and football in particular is now the emerging giant of social economy. The economy of sports has been underrated in that Petition from Lamu; that it has a potential of Kshs302 billion, which is an equivalent to three per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you were to compute that Kshs302 billion which you can attract locally and factor in what the same players once exported to the international market in Germany, China, United Kingdom (UK), Spain and to a small extent, South America, you would hit almost Kshs800 billion to Kshs900 billion per year. The Government has to be strategic. I would like our new Cabinet Secretary, who is youthful, to tone down on trying to please fellow youths. He should constitute competent and technical people, backed with previous experience in sports, so as to inform this particular resource. Mr. Speaker, Sir, can you imagine, for argument sake, a football player like Lionel Messi, can sponsor the budget of the Republic of Kenya for six months, simply because of revenue from his talent in football? The budget of a country! The potential is there and we do not lack the talent. If you go to the Coast –"
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