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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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    "content": "on a large scale, affecting many of our youth, it would be one of the ways of raising money for this country. We know countries which have developed largely because of investment in sports. This is a very welcome amendment. As he rightly said, many counties do not have a sports fund. I think it is only my county, Vihiga, that has a sports fund, but which is largely underfunded. They give them less than Kshs10 million a year. That can do very little work. So, if we will ensure that counties take at least one per cent of their revenue to this Fund, I think we will begin to see improvement. I suggest to my good friend, Sen. Sifuna, to maybe consider amending this Bill, or this clause that deal with how the Fund will be funded, to include monies from the national Government through sharable revenue. In my communication, I will demonstrate why this is possible. I did a lot of research around sports funds. When I was in the National Assembly, I came up with the idea of having sports academies in all the 290 constituencies in Kenya. I came up with a Motion that was passed by the House. During my research, I came across a lot of information that I will share with the Members today. If you go back to history, you will note that sports fund was one of the proposals that emanated during the Grand Coalition Government, which remains to be the only Government that many Kenyans feel worked for them in the history of this country. The Grand Coalition Government had Vision 2030, which had several pillars. One of the pillars was the social pillar where they talked about youth and sports. The Kibaki Regime came up with the Sports Act. In the Sports Act, they came up with a raft of issues. One of them was to have a national academy of sports and sports academies in all counties. They went ahead and came up with a funding mechanism. One of the funding mechanisms was to have a national sports fund, which was to receive its funding from lotteries, betting, and other sources."
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