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    "id": 1563548,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1563548/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibwana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 277,
        "legal_name": "Kibwana Kivutha",
        "slug": "kibwana-kivutha"
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    "content": "I would like another amendment on education guarantees as cited in 54(b). The minors must have access to basic education even in residential academies. The problem is the young athletes sometimes drop out of school hoping for trials abroad. Therefore, the impact would be to prevent exploitation and ensure fallback options. Number three is contractual protection, as cited in 54(c) to 54(e). These contracts, under the provision, involve minors and must be signed by guardians and only valid from age 17. Agents must be accredited. In such cases, there are scam cases from fake international trial offers conning athletes. The impact of this aligns with international best practice. Section 4 is on constitution and county linkage. It confirms that sports and cultural activities are county functions under the Fourth Schedule. Many counties lack harmonization with national policies and the Bill provides a national structure. There are many challenges that face the implementation such as potential challenges for funding gaps, capacity issues and oversight risks. On funding gaps, the counties may lack resources. On capacity issues, there is scarcity of skilled personnel, while on oversight risks, the possibilities of nepotism or mismanagement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my recommendation on this is to ensure conditional grants from the national Government to support academy rollout. We always hide under capacity building, but then most of the grants are always under capacity building, whether the funding has been utilized or not. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, looking at the county staff in sports management through a partnership with instructions, that is, for example, what the Kenyatta University (KU) and Strathmore University do, and then establishing a monitoring and evaluation framework under the Ministry of Sports to ensure compliance, integrate digital scouting and performance analytics to improve talent identification and prioritizing public participation to align academy programmes with youth interests. Now, my final recommendation - and I can see Sen. Eddy wants to have his share and introduce his Bill - is to introduce conditional national funding support to counties to set up academies quickly; use the Kenya Academy of Sports to develop a standard curriculum for coaching at least have academy management to digitize scouting through mobile apps and national database and promote PPP, especially in underfunding counties. This also includes looking at the Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) Index, to assess each academy's performance and hold annual inter-county academies and talent showcases. I am also looking at socializing these young souls, just having a social time. I remember during our days, we had the time to play Kati, Netball, that football, and even"
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