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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "What is lacking here that needs some amendment is investment in safety. When a sports person gets injured and does not get proper treatment--- Sen. Chimera, you remember when I got SEL problem, I was on clutches for almost 12 months yet I am not a professional player. Therefore, you need to think about safety. The investment for safety is humongous. It is for this reason that ownership structure has to go back to clubs. It is in the clubs where you can ensure that there are resources, quality facilities and technological know-how. If you go and look at how Arsenal or Manchester United play, you will realise that the players have things that monitor their heart rates, performance in the field and endurance in the field. All these are technologies that can make help you start making waves in the sporting area. With that, you will be investing in the overall health and wellness of an athlete, which can make you competitive in terms of fostering a more collaborative community where athletes feel respected. When athletes do not feel respected in a space, where this county structure might put them or feel valued, their morale is always down hence they cannot compete at a global stage. So, the authors of this Bill should think about the ownership structure. We can work on some amendment that allows us to think about that ownership structure. However, I feel very strongly that the ownership of academies must be structured within our clubs and the county structure can support that in terms of capacity building of those clubs. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the marketing element can also be buoyed because we will not only be thinking of having our athletes in these academies, but we will also invite people from outside who might have the same talent just the same way we have seen Mariga leave Kenya to go and play for Inter Milan in Italy. That has given him an opportunity to meet people from Cameroon, Zambia and other places in the continent. One is then able to build a proper competing academy with that natural diversity pool in a corporate setting. You can then be able to market those academies and compete at a global stage. Otherwise, this is a brilliant idea, intention and motivation, but it must be informed by the science of sports of countries that have made strides within the domain of sports in general. I support this Bill, but there should be well drafted amendments to augment the ownership structure. I thank you."
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