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    "id": 342813,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/342813/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "The object of this Bill is to promote sports. We must, as a country, address the serious challenges that sports are facing in this country. One is that as a country, while we have international athletes, our stadia are in very bad shape. The Minister has mentioned the Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Eldoret. I want to invite him to the Kipchoge Stadium in Kapsabet. He will not know that he is in a stadium until someone tells him so. It is in a very pathetic state that should not be allowed aware that our international athletes come from there. If you talk about shot put, javelin or even the hurdles, they are rarely found anywhere today other than in Kasarani and maybe in Nyayo Stadium. These are facilities that are very necessary up to the grassroots level. I am glad that we are going to have an authority which will be managing and coordinating sporting activities. I want to indicate here that the functions of this authority which shall be vested in the board as indicated here are very critical. They will be able to establish and maintain a sportsmanship which is very important and critical for this country and which will participate in the promotion of sports tourism. If the Minister for Tourism could actually address issues related to our athletes, we shall have very many tourists visiting Kenya to see what Kenyans are doing."
}