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    "id": 1294868,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294868/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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    "content": "There is also normally a process where you can qualify by posting impressive times through races that are keenly observed by Athletics Kenya as the body responsible. So, that is the whole process in brief. I am just truncating my presentation to save on time. However, that in brief is the process that led to our Team Kenya which we then we prepared to go to Budapest. I can confirm to this House that the Team was presented to the Ministry after being selected. We had a major ceremony to hand them the national flag and formally flag them off at the Ministry Headquarters. In terms of the financials and the budget expended on this assignment, we have provided a breakdown on page ten of our submission. We spent a total of Kshs147,299,127 on this assignment broken up as follows- We spent Kshs36,697,296 on allowances for this team and all these allowances I can confirm to this House have been paid. We also had a homecoming ceremony when this team arrived back and it cost Kshs466,000. The tickets for the team to fly to and from Budapest cost Kshs76,856,458. Accommodation expenses out of the country in Budapest cost Kshs11,679,381. We then had cash rewards amounting to Kshs21,600,000. I will invite the hon. Senators to look at ---"
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