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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports",
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"content": "This is a new project. Ground-breaking was done on 31st March this year. The progress so far is 23 per cent. The works are ongoing. We are delivering this together with the Ministry of Defence, which is the contracted agency of the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports. The other stadium is the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani. It is being renovated to have 55,000-seater capacity. The expected date of completion is December this year. The main works that are being done to refurbish the stadium is the installation of a new roof which will have a greater enclosure of the stadium, 30 metres around the stadium. There is also installation of seats, upgrading of flood lighting to 3,000 Lux, expansion of the Very Important Person (VIP) pavilion, refurbishment of the football pitch, installation of access controls, audio-visual systems, sound, Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in the stadium. Further, there will be upgrading of the changing rooms, doping control and medical rooms, and upgrading of the press and media centre. The works are currently ongoing. I have gone there twice to supervise the progress. The roof was being fabricated off- site, but it has now been delivered. It is on its way to Kasarani to be delivered and installed. This is urgent because that is the stadium that we shall use for CHAN in February 2025. On the training grounds related to Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, we have two pitches at the Kenya Academy of Sports Ground. We also intend to eventually make Kirigiti Stadium a training ground for purposes of the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, AFCON hosting in 2027. All those training grounds have been handed over to the contractor. He is currently mobilising for that purpose. As I said earlier, the works will be completed by December this year. The third facility, for purposes of AFCON, is the Kipchoge Keino Stadium which has a 15,000-seater capacity. The expected completion date is December 2025. There was a slow process of contracting, but we believe the contractor can put more effort to make sure that it is constructed to international capacity by December 2025. The main works are roofing, installation of Very Important Person (VVIP) and VIP seats, upgrading of floodlighting to 3,000 Lux, refurbishment of the football pitch, installation of access control audio-visual systems, sound, VAR, CCTV, and upgrading of changing rooms, doping control and medical rooms. The project was commissioned and the site handed over in August this year. The contractor is currently on site and ready to continue with the work. We are also upgrading the press conference and media centre, perimeter wall and replacement of the tartan track to make it international. As part of the training grounds for the Kipchoge Keino Stadium, we shall commission works in Kapsabet Stadium, Eldoret National Polytechnic Grounds and 64 Stadium, two of which are in Uasin Gishu County and the others in Nandi County. For part of CHAN projects, after Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania bid for CHAN, the Ministry established and identified the following stadia to host CHAN: Masinde Muliro Kanduyi Stadium, Bukhungu Stadium and Nyayo National Stadium. However, when the Confederation of African Football (CAF) inspectors visited the above facilities, they recommended that only Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani and the Nyayo National Stadium shall be eligible to host those very important tournaments. Therefore, as far as Nyayo National Stadium is concerned, it will have 18,000 seating capacity. Initially, we were told to change the football pitch, but we had good consultations and agreement that the grass which is there is sufficient for CHAN preparations. This is to ensure that we do not delay the works towards CHAN. Therefore, some work will go to roofing, installations of VVIP seats, upgrading of floodlighting to 3,000 Lux, installation of access control, visual systems, sound, VAR and CCTV, and upgrading of changing rooms, doping control and medical rooms. Part of those works have already been done. The upgrading of press conference and media centre is also done. We will also upgrade the perimeter wall and replace the tartan track. As part of the Nyayo National Stadium being the main one, the Police SACCO Stadium and Ulinzi 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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