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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Yes, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am doing that. If I get a little patience from the Questioner, I will do that. A coach, as per the ICC requirements is supposed to be on level three and has an experience for coaching senior counties or national teams from the test status nation. I also want to inform this House that last year, two Kenyans were sponsored for level three coaching course in South Africa but they were unable to pass the exams. It is true that the players get Kshs30,000 per month as a retainer. However, they also get other allowances including match fees and medical allowances when they participate in international matches. But I want to accept because I do not want to be in denial that much more, this crisis has given us the opportunity to audit and interrogate Cricket Kenya. We need to level the ground for the players and put more focus in this docket for the cricket management in Kenya. There have been issues in 2010, if this House can remember when we dealt with the crisis of the management and we managed to mainstream it. Last year, there was the crisis about the elections and the legitimacy of the officials. There are also other underlying issues that I would like to tell this House. I know that there have been questions of prejudices within cricket management in this country. My Ministry is not in denial. We accept this and that is why we are doing this audit. Dialogue is important because it enables the Ministry and the officials of the federations to get solutions because we do not want to micromanage the federations. We want to hold them to account as per the sports policy in this country. I am giving the firmest assurance in this House that this crisis may be the template necessary to actually turn round the management of cricket and make it expansive and inclusive, so that it is not a club for the minority – it should be a club for the whole country. We know that there is a problem and that is why we have summoned those officials, be they interim or contesting the elections."
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