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    "id": 1415846,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports",
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    "content": "I want to borrow the flowery language of the Member for Nyeri Town. I confirm to this House that there is no peculiar cosy relationship between us and this contractor or any relationship at all other than that of someone who owes Kenyans an obligation to complete this project well. Let me also look the people of Mt. Kenya region and Kenyans straight in the eye and tell them that Ruring’u Stadium shall be completed. It is an important facility. The people of Nyeri County and Mt. Kenya region, like Kenyans in other parts of this country, deserve to have this project completed. It certainly has been a disservice. Indeed, I can dare add that we owe an apology to the people of Nyeri, the Mt. Kenya region, and all Kenyans as a whole. All of them have a right to use this facility. We did not effectively carry out work on this project, alongside others that I have mentioned like the Wote Stadium and Kamariny Stadium. We owe Kenyans an apology. I say “we” because the Government inherits everything, the good and the bad. We inherited this ‘bad’ as an administration, and we have a responsibility to correct it. I can confirm to the Member and the people of Nyeri that we will fix this ‘bad’ that we inherited. I commit that some of the issues that the Member has raised here have a lot of truth. I have admitted that there is an issue of incapacity in some of our institutions. I have also admitted that our institution like Sports Kenya, for example, could do with resident architects, engineers and technical people. That is why I will still insist that resources should be made available for institutions like Sports Kenya to build their capacity by bringing in the requisite technical competencies. It will help to forestall challenges like these. I also agree that it is not necessary to have consultants. I can give my confirmation to this House that we will revisit this matter so that we have a framework that can better serve the interests of the people. The bottom line is that we must complete Ruring’u Stadium. I commit to the Hon. Member and the House that I am going to be hands-on on this. Since we came into office, we have taken on some projects like the Moi Stadium in Embu. We did it in five weeks, 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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