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    "id": 1238655,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1238655/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "The sports industry is huge and lucrative. We must guard it jealously. Why do we not use our athletes for branding? Why should we give money to Brand Kenya? A few years ago, when Eliud Kipchoge took part in the Eneos Challenge, I am told six billion people were watching across the world. At that time, I was on an official trip of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. We had visited Brumadinho on the issue of disaster preparedness in Brazil at that time. We had to watch Kipchoge run at 1.00 a.m. in Rio de Janeiro. You can imagine if Eliud Kipchoge was wearing a T-shirt with words written: “Visit Kenya, Hakuna Matata ”, the way the President of Rwanda has done. He ensures that Arsenal Football Club players wear jerseys with words asking people to visit Rwanda. Why should we not invest in our athletes? Whenever our athletes, footballers and other players come back, the only gift that the Ministry gives them are the Maasai shukas . We should ask Sen. Seki and Sen. Tobiko to supply those Maasai shukas free of charge and we will feel proud that we have given. We award our gold and silver medal winners less than a million. In Uganda, President Museveni gifts them cars and houses. Someone told me he even gives them wives and husbands for those who are not married. You can imagine that! They only won two gold medals but they were given Head of State Commendation (HSC) recognition. Some of the athletes should be given diplomatic passports. Sen. Mungatana, MGH, these are national treasures. Why should the athletes and sportsmen like Olunga and Omanyala be queuing like the rest of the people, yet they are our national treasure? They are our brand."
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