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    "id": 1238664,
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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": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to make my final point because I have seen the amber light is on. I thank my colleagues because the fact that they did not speak to the Motion, they have supported it through prayers, mate ya baraka and the Holy Spirit. There is an animal called Sports Fund where money was withdrawn to support Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party campaigns. I am not afraid to say that. Money from the Sports Fund was being used to pay subsidy for fuel, when our sportsmen and women were stranded in hotels. There is a time our sportsmen and women travelled to Brazil. They had to share rooms, yet Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was still around. We must address the issue of Sports Fund. We have an acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who has acted for the longest time possible. I will bring an amendment to ring-fence the Sports Fund only for sports. I urge my colleagues who did not speak to ensure they speak to that. The previous administration used to take money from the Fund to do campaigns or use it for other things. Sports Fund should be ring-fenced for only men and women who are in sports. Why would Sports Fund be used to pay fuel subsidy? We were told that here when we censured the CS for Energy and Petroleum. It is good that Sen. Tobiko was an MP. We have argued, why would you run a Sports Fund using rules and regulations? How will we support sports academies if we are using Sports Fund to do political campaigns? I will bring an amendment to ring-fence the Sports Fund because the way it was designed, anybody can walk in, take the money and justify what they are doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, you and I have been in this country for some time. You being a former secretary general of a ruling party and a Member of the Speaker's Panel, we have had cases where athletes and other men and women in sports have gotten stranded at the airports because of non-payment. We have also had cases where sportsmen and women have been stranded at their hotels and their air tickets not---"
}