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    "id": 317436,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otuoma",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
        "slug": "paul-otuoma"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The following measures have been put in place by the Government through the Ministry to tap the youth talents in various sporting activities throughout the country. 1. Establishment of a minimum of three sports talent centres in every district to cater for different sports disciplines under the supervision of sports or youth officers. 2. To recruit under 15 year old youths in these centres. 3. We have also been hiring technical officials within the sports talent centres to ensure that the skills are inculcated appropriately. 4. We are also facilitating with provision of uniforms balls, soccer boots and payment of honoraria to coaches attached to these centres. In this case, a sports centre is a place where youths assemble, i.e. like the community playground, a school field or a hall to play various games. In Nyatike Constituency therefore, the following serve as sports centres where football, volleyball and netball are played. In Muhuru Division we have Banda Community Sports Ground next to Migration Centre. In Karungu Division we have Sports Centre which is located at St. Andrews Sports Ground which is owned by the County Council of Migori where we have a Mr. Fred Otieno as the coach. In Bande Centre which is located at Bande Primary School field, this centre also serves Bande Girls and the coach here is a Mr. Denis Oyugi Osinde. The other centres that are yet to be operationalized are in Karungu Division which is St. Kamlus, Kale Division. Those are the main areas. (b) In the last financial year my Ministry spent over Kshs3 million to construct a new basketball court and pavillion at Migori Stadium for use for development of basketball talents among the youth in that county. Also, last financial year the Ministry spent Kshs140 million to develop sports facilities across the country. In this Financial Year we have budgeted Kshs172 million to also continue developing those facilities in various districts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the medium term plan of 2013/2018, the Ministry envisages putting up 47 regional stadia in each county. For us to attain this, we will need to source Kshs94 billion to be able to achieve our Vision 2030 target. In Nyatike the Department of Sports is also manned by the District Sports Officer who is also currently based in Migori. In this year’s budget of the Kshs172 million we are prioritising - and I am sure some places do not have fields although we had allocated them funds - when we rationalize we will be able to consider Nyatike if they have got more fields."
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