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    "id": 33540,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/33540/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "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, as you are aware, currently we do not have a law in place, under which to govern sports in this country. The Cabinet approved the Sports Bill only the other day, but it is still at the Attorney-General’s Chamber. I hope that we are going to speed up its fine-tuning, so that it can be brought to this House for debate and passage. So, there are certain things we need to do to also put our house in order. As to whether we have confidence in the FIFA process or not, I have my doubts. That is not in question but we are saying we could get Kenyans of integrity to manage this process for us, so that the Government does not get involved in business which is not supposed to be Government business. We are supposed to have federations to run sports in this country. That is what the Sports Bill envisages. Once Parliament passes that Bill into law, it will be very clear as to what role the Government should play and what role the federation should play. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are currently operating in a very delicate situation. That is the kind of situation we are in. We still do not have an Act of Parliament clearly defining the relationship between the sports federations and the Government. That is why my predecessors’ attempts to clean up the management of football in this country ended in court and the status quo remained. I did not want to take that route because the outcome is quite obvious."
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