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    "id": 330898,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Kipng'etich Bett",
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    "content": " I will do it in English today and not that I am not proficient in Kiswahili; I am. I also rise to support this Motion of adjournment. While doing so, I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the officers concerned for the appointments which we have approved for the new members of staff of the National Assembly and the Senate. I also want to thank the outgoing Clerk, Patrick Gichohi and I want to disclose that we were at the university at the same time. He has done a good job. I wish him well wherever else he is going to after here. I also want to thank Members of this House; they have done a good job over this period. Hon. Members have passed so many Bills and done so many Motions. This is an indication that this is a hardworking House contrary to what others may be saying outside there. Yesterday we did pass the Sports Bill into Committee of the Whole House. I want to underline the importance of sports in this country and I want to urge the relevant Ministry that the infrastructure in sports must be given a lot of attention. It is one area that will remove our youth who may be unemployed in the various parts of the country. I heard that there would be up to 18 stadiums to be done. I want to believe there will be Kapkatet Stadium in Kericho County amongst those stadiums which will actually serve both Bomet and Kericho Counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one other thing that I want to indicate when it comes to athletes particularly those who are undertaking proffessional activities is that every time they go out of the country and when they come back, the positives they have acquired outside the country are normally taxed by the Athletics Association of Kenya (AAK). When one looks at it critically, why are they being taxed? What contribution has AAK done to the athlete in order to win wherever they are? I think this is an immoral taxation and it should not be allowed any more because it is the sweat of that athlete which is being taken away by a person who has not contributed to the person of that athlete. It is actually killing the proffession in that if I go out there and find I will be"
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