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    "content": "have difficulty, but the Ksh18.75 million has already been released, and is available to the athletes. Hon. Emaase posed the question on whether the challenge is funding or incompetent staff. As I have already indicated, the Ministry has a serious challenge of funding. That I will admit to this House, and I will invite you to be a lot more accommodating in the resource allocation to sports, given its value. Kindly, be more accommodating when we request this House to reinforce the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund for Sports and Arts, exclusively. I have no doubt that the Ministry has competent staff, but we definitely have issues in federations, and as I have already asked this House, we are putting together a very robust programme to deal with the governance challenges of federations but it is a challenge that requires the full support of this House. We have already put these federations on notice and we invite this House to support that process of streamlining federations. Allow me to conclude with the question on Talanta Hela . It is a very revolutionary programme. It is a programme which is intended to fix the myriad challenges that we inherited in this sector. I had started by making reference to those challenges. We found a country banned by FIFA; a country on the verge of being banned by the World Athletics because of doping; and, a country with no single stadium approved by FIFA or CAF for football activities. The whole arena of sports infrastructure was completely tattered. We found a country where federations had myriad issues. We also inherited a scene where that whole area of what we call the creatives was really not consolidated. I am talking about musicians, film and royalties’ payable to our creatives. To help fix these challenges, we imagined what we considered to be a silver bullet, which we now call the the Talanta Hela initiative. This initiative is about launching sports and creatives as a mega industry. It is also about monetising talents of our younger people. As I speak right now, we have already had a very successful national youth talent camp. The Talanta Hela inter-county football tournament is going on all-over the country. We launched that tournament in the home county of the Hon. Deputy Speaker, Uasin Gishu, at Kipchoge Keino Stadium in a very successful ceremony. That is going on. On the Talanta Hela App, that App is not just an App; it is a digital system that would allow scouting of talents from all-over the country through the virtual space. It is a fantastic system. A child in Turkana, for instance, can send his or her skill through that App to a team of scouts. What was ignited by His Excellency the President at State House on 9th June, was the system, and it is ready. I can confirm to this House that there was a challenge that caused a delay in the completion of the screening room because it is a whole ecosystem from the point where you take a clip and put it in the system, to where it is then transmitted to a screening centre. The centre suffered procurement delays and we have been given a date, 4th September, as completion of the screening room."
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