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    "id": 1278683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1278683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Yes, Hon. Speaker. The microphone is next to me. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I speak not only on my behalf, but also as the independents of this august House. It is really a shame the way we treat our heroes. These are not the first ones. With our insistence, I hope they will be the last to be treated the way they are treated. I remember there was a time when we were at the airport and we met a certain world record holder coming back. He just walked through. When you go to European countries, they welcome people who clinch position 15 like heroes. Hon. Speaker, we have also discussed this matter with the President’s Awards-Kenya (PA-K). There have been times when awards were given to people who were walking around with maharagwe and whatever. I think that has to stop. We must have an understanding that any athlete who gets us a gold medal is given a particular award. A world record should be given a particular award as well as a particular State recognition together with some money thereto. Foreign coaches and managers misuse many of our athletes. I know one who has been in abject poverty and another who passed away not long ago. They were world record holders and they died in abject poverty. I urge my friend, Mhe. Ababu Namwamba, to start getting away from the World Rally Championship and some of these fancy programmes."
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