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    "id": 1415885,
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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 can skip it for now. I will answer it at that point. We have provided details on the Question on academies. Hon. Dido Raso has mentioned Marsabit. It is in our master plan. He has correctly noted that one bit of the project is completed. That is the bit that was done by the Ministry through Sports Kenya. I visited Marsabit to confirm that. The bit the County Government did is incomplete. We had serious concerns about the integrity of that structure. I am pleased to report to this House that we have done integrity tests and we have a report. We commissioned the structure to determine whether it can withstand completion. The test results are being analysed and as soon as that will be completed, we will proceed to complete the project as indicated in the master plan. There was a question from the Member for Emuhaya, Hon. Omboko on Bukhungu Stadium. I could not agree more with the Member that this region, the mulembe land, is a hotbed of talents. Bukhungu Stadium is like a shrine of football and it certainly deserves to be given attention. I am pleased, again, to report to this honourable House that I was personally at Bukhungu Stadium a month ago to do groundbreaking for the completion of Bukhungu Stadium. We have entered into a partnership with the county government to complete the bit that is remaining. So, work is ongoing at Bukhungu Stadium and we have every determination to complete it. While that is going on, we have also done groundbreaking of Masinde Muliro Stadium Kanduyi, Bungoma County. It is also on track. In fact, that will be the host of this year’s Madaraka Day celebrations and we are racing against time to complete it in time, not only to host Madaraka Day, but to also be available to support the sporting ecosystem of Bungoma County and the rest of that region. Finally, on the question by the Leader of the Majority Party, he asked a very fundamental question on escalation of project costs. I am happy to report to this honourable House that the audit report that the Leader of the Majority Party referred to is actually a result of our own request. I wrote to the Auditor-General to invite his office to look at these projects during the process of developing our master plan to help us avoid pitfalls that have afflicted this sector for many years. We are very keen. This is our audit as it were, if I may call it that way. It is our audit because we asked for it. So, its results are very important to us. We are very keen to deal with this hydra-headed monster of overpricing projects because it is real. If you look at a lot of these projects, you do not see value for money. So, we are keen to deal with that issue. 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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