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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for that information. I will continue now and take longer. I was trying to rush through the other amendments, but now that I know what my rights are, the remaining ones nitaenda pole pole kidogo.Asante sana. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when it comes to sports, we really would want to take this opportunity to ensure that the county governments play their role. They will play their role because I know under the Sports Act, there are some stadia called “national” like Kasarani, Nyayo and so on. However, we would want to encourage the national Government to allocate more money to the county governments so that the natural talent that is there in our youths is properly utilized. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk about shortage of employment in this country, we also talk about Uwezo Funds and other funds to encourage our youths to be entrepreneurs and so on. I believe the same amount of energy that we are spending on encouraging entrepreneurs, should also be spend on encouraging our youths. When I was in school long time ago, athletics and other games were not really valued. In fact, you tended to think that those who were very good in sports were those who were not very good in the classroom. So, they were looked down upon. At our time when we were in school we only knew soccer, hockey and volleyball. We did not have these varied games like swimming, tennis and so on. We were also given the impression that good employment where you can get money is white collar jobs. We have now realized that there is a goldmine in this thing called sports. If you can excel yourself in any aspect of sports - like the people I mentioned who play in Europe are millionaires. They are earning more than you and I. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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