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    "id": 1294851,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294851/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me, first of all, appreciate the opportunity granted to our Ministry to come shed light on these issues. Right from the outset, let me quickly inform this House that Marsabit Stadium is one among a number of stadia that stalled about 3 or 4 years ago; in 2019 to be specific. The other stadia include Wote Stadium in Makueni County, Karatu Stadium in Kiambu County, Ruring’u Stadium in Nyeri County, Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Uasin Gishu County and Kamariny Stadium in Elgeyo/marakwet County. We have done an assessment in the last one year that we have been in office and we did take note of a number of factors that could have contributed to the stalling of this particular stadium in Marsabit County alongside the others that I have mentioned. Those factors included difficulties; what we can call haphazard in coherent selection of projects, project prioritization, which had challenges and not taking time to ensure that as you prioritize the project, you actually have sufficient funds to finance it, as is the requirement. Based on this assessment, the Ministry has made two important interventions which I would invite the House to take note of. One, we invited the Auditor-General to conduct an audit to empirically determine the cause for the stalling of these projects, given that a significant sum of money was spent on them. Indeed, I can confirm to this House that, that audit is going on. Marsabit Stadium, alongside these other stadia, are being audited. The progress report we have is that the audit should be concluding anytime soon. Two, we took time to prepare a comprehensive sports infrastructure masterplan. I am pleased to inform this House that today, for the first time in the history of Kenya, the country now has a substantive, comprehensive, well thought out masterplan to guide the development of infrastructure in sports and the creative industry."
}