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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "If you think about sports like the synchronized swimming, if you come from the lake where I come from or in the Indian Ocean where Sen. Faki comes from, you will realise that the kind of swimming that Sen. Chimera does is called snorkeling. They do a lot of snorkeling and go and swim with the dolphins right in Wasini Island. This is an opportunity where they can get when you think about sporting in a broad capacity, that we see a lot of those diversified sporting opportunities in the Olympics. I think that people in Kenya have talent enough to participate at a global level. So, I want to invoke the spirit of Ajua in Migori County--- Ajua can be a sport. This is what we call mancala sports. It can be a sport that we showcase, not just locally in Migori County, but all the way nationally. Let us encourage our counties that when this fund, being supported by Sen. Sifuna comes to law, we must see investment in all the sporting activities that we are seeing at the Olympic levels. Lastly, since I want to give time to my colleagues who want to contribute to this wonderful Bill, there is a conversation that I have seen the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister, Raila Amollo Odinga, bring around devolution. One thing that I have learnt, there are two concurrent Bills that have come to this House. The Bill on period poverty and the Bill on sports. You realise that where these things happen to the maximum is in primary schools, more fundamentally, and high school to some extent. Is it not the right time for us to start thinking about devolving primary and secondary education, and to some extent, the entire education system? Counties can be given the power to deal with the immediate manifestation of the problems that are related with upbringing of our children at the schooling level. When you leave them largely to the national Government, they collapse. Sporting is collapsing when the best place to build sporting capacities is in high school and primary schools, where age has not caught up with people that they can nurture these sports. So, there will be a contradiction where you have put a fund to support sports in counties, yet some of the hubs that they must put that financing is in primary school and in high school, which is not devolved, Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to encourage that this conversation about sports and the Bill that was brought by my sister, Sen. Orwoba, should invoke in us the spirit of wishing for more devolved functions that are relevant to the upbringing and to the best well-being of our people, like education. With that, I appreciate Sen. Sifuna. I support this Bill in totality, but with amendments in the areas that I have tried to cast some thoughts on. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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