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    "id": 1476247,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1476247/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Arts",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, let me give the counties the benefit of doubt, and I say this because so far, Homa Bay County is doing very well with their stadium which they built themselves. It is fairly well maintained. The Hon. Deputy Speaker is saying it is because of the Governor, who is a woman. I do not think that is the only reason. The thing I would like to say is that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) we are going to sign - and that is why Wang’uru has not been handed over - is because that Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must capture all those issues. The fear that you develop a national Government facility and hand it over to the county, then sometimes another county government or a petty Governor will come in. After that, when the national Government, its leadership, Members of Parliament or whoever else wants to have a function there, then they say it cannot be approved because they have political differences with Member of Parliament X or Y. So, that Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will have to provide all those mechanisms of how those relationships will be established considering the investment has been done by the national Government. That is the most important thing we are going to have with that MOU. As I said, that is why to progressively have those stadia owned by private entities so that they do not have consideration of those type of issues."
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