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    "id": 481826,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Kennedy Mong'are Okong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to second this Motion. I wish to applaud our team which has always made us proud especially in the athletics. It is important now that we have devolved some of these functions that our governors and ourselves put a lot of effort in improving the stadia around the counties. It is also important as somebody who has dealt with athletes that we nurture talents of our youth in terms of training for investments and education. Also, I do not agree with those people who are arguing that our athletes who defect to countries in the Arab world should be condemned. For somebody like myself who has been a consultant in athletics, Kenya is a granary. Those are just fine products who have gone out and they will eventually come back. There is a lot of potential in our youth which is untapped. I call upon all of us to work in this regard to assist these young talent so that we can move forward instead of just engaging those who have gotten opportunities to go out and earn a living and who will eventually come back to build this country. Another issue I will briefly talk about is that of coaching in this country. Training of our athletes is exposed to all the media in the world. That is why sometimes we lose in these efforts especially when competing in the fields. In fact, you can never see Ethiopians train and that is why we urge this Committee to come up with a policy which states that we should be training our athletes in a secretive manner so that we do not expose them to our opponents. Last but not least, we have a problem in football where the performance is very dismal, maybe that is the reason why our President sent our team to the World Cup so that they can improve. I would like the relevant Ministry to come up with stringent measures even if it means banning the team like Nigeria did many years ago so that we can improve. Performance in football has been dismal and that needs to be relooked into. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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