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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": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me bring to the attention of the Member for Ndhiwa and the House generally that I have made some annexures to my responses. So, information for some of the issues that have been raised here is provided in the annexures. I particularly refer to Annexure (b) that talks to the work that we are doing in the space of innovation because that is part of our Talanta Hela initiative and part of promoting youth creativity and entrepreneurship. I also have Annex (c) which provides youth training camps nationally. We are rolling out 45 athletic training centres in different parts of the country and that is provided in Annex (c) in addition to Annex (a) which is the master plan. Back to the Question, we are very proud of the measures we have taken as a Ministry and Government to raise the profile of identifying, nurturing and monetising talent in this country. We came to office at a time when this space had no form. The whole sporting arena was troubled all over the place. There was no notable structure and initiative on how to deal with the question of developing the talents of young people in this country and turning them into livelihoods or “ pesa mfukoni ” as we call it. Things like football were in shambles. Football had been suspended when we came to office. Doping had run amok and Kenya was on the verge of being banned by the World Athletics. Sports infrastructure as we have demonstrated here was in shambles all over the place. It was even unthinkable that Kenya could host the Africa Cup of Nation. It is amazing that today we are talking about hosting AFCON. At the time the Kenya Kwanza administration came to office, Kenya did not even have a 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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