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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Sports and the Arts",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me make an effort to quickly run through these questions. I will start with the question by the Leader of the Majority Party. He has asked a question touching on the team in Budapest, regarding the uniforms. It is a question that has also been asked by Hon. Deputy Speaker, Gladys Shollei, also touching on the uniforms. Allow me to clarify to this House that, number one, Kenyan teams at this level, do not use Adidas as a brand. In fact, the National Olympics Committee of Kenya which is responsible for teams at this level, has a subsisting contract with Nike. It is a contract we found already in place. By virtue of that contract, Kenyan teams are kitted by Nike. I have the privilege of having the photos of the team that went to Budapest because I flagged off the team myself. At the flagging off, I was together with the President of Athletics Kenya, General Jackson Tuwei. If you allowed me, I would pass on to the Leader of the Majority Party images of Team Kenya fully kitted in their Nike uniform as per the contract of kitting these teams. I submit respectfully that the Kenyan team in Budapest is properly kitted by the kitting partner who is Nike. Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party also raised a question on the challenges that the Ministry may be facing that could affect its performance. That is why it would be useful as we do this interaction for me to set the scene of what the sporting arena generally looks like. I confirm here that, number one, we have had limitations with budget allocations. It will be recalled, for instance, that among the ministries that traditionally suffer budget cuts and limited funding is this Ministry. Yes, we have the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund, but traditionally this Fund supports too many other things. This Fund has supported health care, it has supported the Ministry of Education, school feeding programmes, and equipment acquisition in hospitals. So, one of the things that we will be requesting this House to do is to ring-fence this Fund, and make it strictly a Fund for sports and the arts. As it stands today, that Fund now supports too many other things, which crowds out support for sports and the arts. I want this honourable House to note, that among the biggest challenges facing this Ministry, is the ecosystem of federations. I invite this House to acknowledge that the running of sports is not the exclusive domain of Government. In fact, it is a partnership between the Government and federations. On the issue of kitting, for instance, every federation normally The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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