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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "where Senator Hamida thrives cannot be run by counties. Those clubs must be run in a semi-autonomous way that appreciates the doctrines of corporate structure that allows them to thrive as academies. I wish that the authors of this Bill could sit down with Sen. Sifuna who had authored a Bill also, which we discussed here a few weeks ago. His Bill sought to make sure that counties can seclude about one per cent of their budgets and then invest it into a sports fund that enables the elements of clubs to thrive in our communities. That way we allow for an ownership structure that makes the clubs in our communities very well run, registered and think about management that can make them be competitive at a global stage. The idea here is to build talent not for talents sake and just for dealing with problems of social nature in our communities, but build talents that can compete at a global stage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, how does this look like in Europe? This is not just the idea of having the knowledge of the game that then you want the county to invest in in terms of putting on an academy. It is about being able to have the technical know-how of being able to make a corporate or, if I may, a commercial case for that game to be able to thrive both at our national stage and internationally. For instance, think about it. If you want to give counties the burden of thinking through the schedule of classes for an academic curriculum, you start facing a big problem in terms of even just scheduling those classes, where a young person who needs to go through a sporting academy might also be required to go through a formal schooling system. That will be a problem if the ownership structure is within counties. Think about management bookings. When people in community organizations are playing in the different leagues that we have within and without our borders the idea of just even settling up on those bookings cannot be done by counties. If you think about just tracking attendance of students within an academy and balancing it out, it cannot be done by county committees. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Osotsi had talked about the idea of financing. How do you ensure that you have got a sustainable financing platform for which you run these academies? You cannot have a sustainable financing platform if you are going to depend on county governments to dig deep into the small amount of money that we send them to fully finance this curriculum. What you are going to have to face immediately in ownership structure is that you will have to start expecting that students do some form of payment to these academies. That form of payment is a progress that counties will find themselves battling because a county is a political structure where the payment that you start requiring for students to pay for this will become a problem. We have seen it even in programmes such as even feeding programmes in Nairobi City County where the portion that students need to pay starts becoming a problem. When it is owned in a private setting, but then enabled by a county by facilitating proper running of clubs then we will have some form of subsidies that then go into these private academies that are striving in counties because their clubs are being run properly. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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