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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I want to support the statement by Sen. Crystal Asige. The mantra in sports is that the success in sport is one per cent talent and 99 per cent perspiration. I like the idea that the Senate Majority Leader put in place that science has indeed caught up with talent. This is a big lesson for us. We must appreciate that we are not investing so much on the perspiration side of this success. We are not investing in the right science and areas that we need to. We are just waiting for our sportsmen and women to depend purely on talent. More than that, I also think that the evil of corruption has bedeviled our sports industry. It is always very heartbreaking when you see your own playing for the other team and succeeding very well. For instance, the young lady who won the Steeplechase for Berlin. This is a serious Kenyan who has been denied opportunities to be able to perform for Kenya just because of simple corruption issues. These are issues that the new Cabinet Secretary must address in the Ministry and be able to allow truly talented people get the opportunity that they deserve. I am extending this issue of opportunity to the conversation that has been brought to the Floor of this House by the wonderful Senator for Nandi, Sen. Cherarkey. I call him wonderful because for the first time I have seen him standing very strongly with the Gen Zs. He has brought a very eminent issue of Gen Zs who go to the street to protest and then, whether organically or through some dubious means, some people organize to go and attack those young people in the streets in Nandi. This is not a phenomenon that we have only seen in Nandi. We have also seen this phenomenon in Migori and Nairobi counties. We are seeing it becoming a serious pattern of attacking protesters and pitting Kenyans against Kenyans. This cannot continue. We cannot sit as leaders and then we see people who come to the street to express themselves to show their discontent and then we devise a means of having Kenyans fight among themselves in the streets. It cannot happen."
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