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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "to pretend that they are trainers. Their target is to get into contracts with talented young people so that they can get the money. Their motive is just the money. So, without the athlete knowing what is going on, they create programmes, foods and give them medication which according to the athletes, is part of the training programme. However, they are not aware that these people are injecting things into the foods they eat. As a result, they inject and make them use substances which are abused so that, these people can win those races. Nonetheless, their target is to get money. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Motion will help to let the world know that the Senate of Kenya is against these kinds of practises. The Senate of Kenya has pronounced itself in matters to do with athletics; that in this country, we want to keep athletics pure and do honest work. If coaches come to this country, they must come to train honest, talented people. With this Motion, I am calling upon all Members of the Senate who will speak to this Motion, to support it. I am calling upon the Members of this House to rise above partisan inclinations; to come and speak as a nation to support this Motion. This Motion will help us send a message, not only to the Kenya Anti-Doping Agencies and the Kenya Athletic Agencies, but even the World Agencies. That, we in Kenya, cannot condone practises that are geared at cheating in International Athletics. My colleague and learned friend has said that Russia was banned. Athletes from that country had to run away in order to try and get citizenship from other nations. This was so that they can utilise their talent and compete in their person capacities. If a first world country such as Russia, they can afford to do that, what about here in Kenya? How many young people can actually afford to get out of Kenya and go to another country, be able to convince people that they have a talent and it is just that their country has been banned? Thereafter, those people to give you an immigration status or a citizenship of that country and allow you to compete in their country’s name. It is impossible. Most of our young people who have made money, name and fame in athletics come from very rural and humble backgrounds. Therefore, they cannot afford a bad reputation from this country. It will be a loss for this nation if this thing is not controlled and the Anti-Doping Agency is not put under the microscope again. These people need to be in fact summoned even before the Committees of this House to explain what is happening in that Agency. It allocated Government’s money. It has Government facilities and yet they are not giving us the results that they are supposed to give to us. It is a shame that they have not even filed a report to either Houses of Parliament so that, people can see what it is that they are using our money for. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to use the Floor of this House to appeal to the Executive, particularly, the CS who is in charge of Sports, Culture and Heritage, hon. Ababu Namwamba. He has been a Member of this House. He knows that he carries the"
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