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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "My apologies, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I apologise and I will continue in English. It is important that we bring out this sport to the rest of the country so that this nation feels this is athletics for Kenya and those people are Kenyans, they need to be taken to Mandera, they need to be flown by the Government to Mombasa, they need to be paraded in those trucks to Nairobi so that people can know these are the people who are doing us proud in this country and globally. The Government needs to do that, not to lift them from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and rush them to Eldoret. I do not think that is good because when you travel out of this country, you will be asked about the athletes and who won the javelin medal and you do not know the name. It is important that as a nation, we promote them by waiving double taxation that the Mover talked about. Why do you tax a person who has brought glory to this nation? The Government can waive tax for them. It is not something earned every day. He gets some little allowance and he can go and invest that money in his training and family so that he can concentrate in that activity. Even if you want to tax it, reduce it significantly but where this athlete is already taxed in another country, for heaven’s sake, do not tax him again. It does not help. It is a disincentive and one of the things that discourages these sportsmen. Mr. Deputy, Speaker, Sir, the state of the training facilities has been mentioned. If you go to one of our stadia across this country, I watched on television the famous Kipchoge Keino Stadium a few years ago - may be it has been renovated - that stadium was in a dilapidated condition. It is a disaster yet the name of that person is known nationally and globally but the stadium named after him is in total disrepair yet international sportsmen are coming to train in them. A few months ago, the British sprinter, Mo Farah, was spotted in the midday in Uasin Gishu, Eldoret, training. There are many who come there because of the altitude yet we do not even invest nor have a system of taking advantage of those facilities and encouraging the sports industry the Mover mentioned. In any industry, you maximize on your competitive and distinctive advantage. In this country, it is known we do not perform very well in soccer, for example, but we perform well in athletics. Why do we not put in more resources, time, effort and investments into athletics so that we become the global leader in that? You do not go into ten different activities but your 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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