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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kesses, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Rutto",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to laud our athletes who have demonstrated the capacity to lift the flag and the name of our nation. I want to single out the beautiful ladies of Kenya who put us on the map of the world, and not forgetting one man, Mr Wanyonyi. You need to know the story of that young man. He was a herdsman in a village called Kosirai. That family had faith in him. They took him over when he was a child. They took him to school and gave him an opportunity. Today, he is running. He has won a gold medal for Kenya. It demonstrates to us that we can be good as Kenyans, support the destitute in our society, and give them a second chance. That is a story that I wanted to tell. Lastly, because of time, I call upon the Athletics Kenya and Federation to iron out issues. We have had many issues here now and then, especially surrounding elections. It is time we relook at it because if you look at the behaviour and the performance of our athletes, as much as the ladies did us a favour by winning, we had many challenges on our specific track events like the 3,000- metres steeplechase that Kenya has been winning now and then are slowly drifting. This shows that there is a problem somewhere, either in the selection or in the process of training and identifying the team. All goes together and zero in the leadership. I want to call upon the Government and the new Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Murkomen, to sit down and look at Athletics Kenya. We cannot afford to lose what has been known for Kenya for a long time. That has been our brand, and other countries are now coming in. In the 800-metre race for women and men, again, we are seeing other countries like the USA shifting from their short races and coming to long races, which Kenya has been performing well. Despite the fact that we did well and became position one in Africa, we also need to realise that we are losing in the critical areas of our performance that have been known to us. Thank you."
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