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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": "The Member for Kesses asked about Kipchoge Keino Stadium. As I said at the beginning, it is among the facilities and sporting infrastructure that had gone under. Until last Saturday when the Kakamega Homeboyz Football Club played the Libyan team called Al Hilal, Kenya did not even have a stadium approved by FIFA or the CAF. To get CAF approval for that game, we had to do an emergency rehabilitation of the Nyayo Stadium. We have a masterplan that I will be glad to share with this honourable House. Part of the Talanta Hela programme is a sports and arts masterplan on how to improve our infrastructure. That masterplan includes revamping our international stadia so that CAF and FIFA can be comfortable with them. As you know, we have put in a bid to host the Africa Cup of Nations, 2027. We have made tenders for rehabilitation of stadia and Kipchoge Keino Stadium is among them. These tenders were opened on 17th of this month for rehabilitation of Kasarani Stadium, Nyayo Stadium, and Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Eldoret. As we await this programme to start, we did some emergency rehabilitation of Kipchoge Keino Stadium and that is why it hosted the Devolution Conference Games, which, again, I had the honour to open. Hon. Kagombe, when I mentioned the issue of the account, I meant account details given by some athletes. There were bits of issues which are being sorted out, and I believe that money should reach the athletes within a week as I have confirmed here. On concrete measures for swimmers, I have made it very clear here that we want to agree with World Aquatics on a programme where we can have a joint effort between World Aquatics and the Government of Kenya to resolve these issues. It will be important to get this court case out of the court and get these factions on the table so that we can get Kenya Aquatics back on track because the people who are suffering are our swimmers and not those who are fighting. Finally, there was a question from the Chief Whip that was reiterating a question raised by the Leader of the Majority Party on participation in Doha and Paris. The undertaking I can give, and I have already given… Let me reiterate it: We want to agree with World Aquatics to accelerate the process of withdrawing this case from court, getting the elections for Kenya Aquatics done and getting Kenya Aquatics back to undertake their mandate. Ultimately, this is the mandate of Kenya Aquatics and as we do that, we want to agree with World Aquatics on a framework that could allow our swimmers to compete even if that process is delayed. That is the best way to support these athletes. 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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