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    "id": 367223,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, let me thank this House and all Members who have been able to support me through this Motion. The need for us to empower, protect and support our athletes is beyond explanation. Those athletes have done so much for this country. Those athletes need more than we give them. Those athletes are the best ambassadors that we have in this country. If you go to America - where I lived for a long time - and ask someone who the President of Kenya is, he or she will not tell you. However, if you ask them who the world record holder in marathon is, they will tell you that it is Patrick Makau. If you ask them who Paul Teregat is, they will tell you who he is. If you ask them who Rudisha is, they will tell you who he is. The Government needs to spend on people like those. Those are people who are out there selling not only themselves, but this country. We should even go ahead and start paying them to represent us in selling this country. We pay some people out there a lot of money to sell our country as a tourist destination. Let us use our athletes. Pay them money, let them go out there and advertise our country because they do the best. We need to protect our athletes not only because of the rising insecurity out there as a result of terrorism, but we also need to protect them against greedy and selfish agents who come to this country and practise what I now call “modern day slavery”."
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