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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": " Hon. TJ Kajwang’, yes, my apologies. I served with the late Hon. Kajwang’. Thank you for the correction. Number one, this team was not a team of children. Just to confirm, it was a team of senior players aged generally between 20 and 35 years. That was the general age of the team, as a clarification on record. Number two, Hon. Kajwang’, I can confirm to this House that certainly I am the least travelled Cabinet Secretary when you talk about travelling to destinations. I saw some report indicating that I am supposed to be in Budapest with the World Athletics Team. I can confirm to this House that because of austerity measures of spending within the Ministry, I have not had the honour or privilege to accompany our teams travelling out of the country. Instead, we choose to send technical officers. Like for this particular team, we sent the Chief Executive Officer of the Academy of Sports and the Director of Sports. The team in Budapest right now has a technical officer who is the Director of Sports accompanying the Principal Secretary, Eng. Peter Tum. So, it is not true at all, that I go gallivanting around the globe. I travel very sparingly. I want that to go on record. Hon. Speaker, Hon. Wanjiku Muhia raised a number of questions. One on the spending on accommodation. I confirm that the spending on accommodation which I indicated here and is in our formal submission, was on local accommodation. We accommodated this team at Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), for the entire period of camping. That cost was met by the funding that I have provided. Ordinarily, when you have Olympics, the organising federation takes responsibility at that level. Let that be clarified. In terms of why this team flew to Munich, it is because there was a build-up activity in Munich. Different teams were supposed to congregate in Munich and then proceed to Berlin. That is the reason this team went to Munich. It is not true that there was late registration. This team was registered on time and all of them were able to participate. The rules for these international events are so stringent, that they do not allow any registration out of time. I can confirm that this team was, indeed, registered on time. Hon. Gladys Boss Shollei, the Hon. Deputy Speaker, raised a couple of questions. One on budget and how that budget was spent. Let me confirm that, ordinarily, the Ministry does not generate any budget for any event; budgets are generated by the parent federations. In this case, the budget was generated by the Special Olympics Federation. It is that budget that is used to make the allocation. The funds go to the federation. It is the federation that takes responsibility for that spending. The federation also takes responsibility for kitting. I want to confirm yet again that we are not aware of any fake Adidas kits, and that these teams are ordinarily kitted by Nike under a very formal agreement that is headlined by the National Olympics Committee of Kenya, that takes responsibility. 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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