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    "id": 131012,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Sambili",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Youth and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 28,
        "legal_name": "Hellen Jepkemoi Sambili",
        "slug": "hellen-sambili"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, about motivational support to the athletes, I want to assure hon. Members that I feel that our athletes really need more. I went to Ethiopia last year, after I was just appointed. I was shown a mountainous place that is like Muthaiga. I was told that was where the athletes of Ethiopia stay. They are given cars and houses, as Mr. Mungatana said. So, I would like to ask that the Ministry of Finance gives us more money for us to be able to support these people, because they are real heroes. I was in the field with some hon. Members, namely, Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry, Mr. Pesa and Mr. Kabando wa Kabando as well as our Permanent Secretary. You could scream until you lost your voice. These people are real patriots. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say that the role of sports in promoting peace in this country is very powerful. As said by Mr. Ethuro, there is sports for peace development that is being pursued by the United Nations (UN) through a gentleman known as “Lemke”. I quote one of our athletes, Tekla Lorupe, who was also in Berlin. She has started a peace race, where the warriors in the communities that normally fight compete and are given cows, so that they can stop cattle rustling. We support such initiatives. I want to thank the House and say that we give cash awards. We will still give them the same, but those awards are so minimal. I accept that they are not enough. We are asking for more money, so that we can support the centres of excellence for sports. I want to inform this House that we have been in discussions with the Ministry of Education, so that we can have talent academies developed in various parts of this country. We can then have people who can run short races. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that we have people from western and eastern Kenya, as my brother here said, who can run. With support from Treasury and hon. Members – I do not know whether to call it “scholarships” – we can work together to give them shoes. We want to develop a sports training camp of some kind for the various sports. As we prepare for 2010 Senior African Athletics Championships, we would like to be able to increase, or broaden, the sphere of sports we participate in."
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