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    "id": 1294870,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294870/?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": "Thank you, Senator. An attachment that we have provided on the Schedule of Cash Awards. I confirm to this House that one of the areas where the Ministry and the Government have done exceedingly well is to revise the whole reward scheme. Previously, the reward scheme had been extremely low and the payments unpredictable. You may want to know, for example, that last August, we held a ceremony where we were clearing allowances and cash rewards owed to athletes going back to 11 years amounting to Kshs25 million. Meaning that for 11 years, an athlete who represented Kenya had been waiting for their allowances and cash awards. We were able to settle that in August. Significantly, we also used that opportunity to reward some of our top legends and to improve the entire framework for rewards. So, the breakdown of that Kshs21,600,000 was applied according to the new scheme as follows- We had three gold medals, two for Faith Kipyegon and one gold medal for Mary Moraa. We also had three silver medals for Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Beatrice Chepkoech, and Daniel Simiyu Ebenyo and four bronze medals won by Faith Cheroitich, Beatrice Chebet, Jacob Krop and Abraham Kibiwot. Those are the areas where rewards were expended in terms of the rates in our new scheme, which I will come to shortly. The expenditure on this assignment all comes down to Kshs147 million. The Team returned after Budapest and was received by the Ministry at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)."
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