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    "id": 22160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabondo wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank this House for finding very special time and hon. Gumbo for pioneering this to celebrate the performance of our athletes. Indeed, there is nothing better that has inspired this country than sports through the years. I want to assure this House that my Ministry has put in place the necessary arrangements and I am requesting for support when we bring the Sports Bill. We have asked the Prime Minister today and I asked His Excellency the Vice-President at the airport to help in the infrastructure so that it is put as a priority agenda. All the issues that have been raised, namely, the Sports Lottery, the Sports Trust Fund and the Sports Academy are all covered there. The Brand Kenya Board, the Kenya Tourist Board and the Film Corporation of Kenya are also very keen. They were handy today also to receive our athletes. They want to profile our athletes so that we can template and use them for marketing Kenya overseas. I want to inform this House that the President of South Korea found time to go to the villages of the athletes specifically to see the villages and particularly to greet the Kenyan athletes because there is no better word in Daegu, South Korea and globally than the word of the Kenyan marathon and the Kenyan long distance runners. Finally, we only received Kshs500 million for sports this financial year. We have already spent Kshs300 million on the team to Maputo for the All Africa Games. We spent Kshs20 million on the contingent to Daegu. I am requesting this House to look for unconventional solutions, so that we can have re-allocations, if the kind of money that is required to finance sports will be available. We are also asking this House to support unanimously the Sports Bill and I am happy the Deputy Leader of Government Business is here, so that it is passed. We should not continue debating and dialoguing. There is no better talent, fame and prestige than the achievement that has been made by our sports men and women. Regarding all the issues about heroism, we in the Ministry are of the opinion that we should rename the colonially named streets in Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa to replicate the advantage of these athletes. With those remarks, I support strongly."
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