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    "id": 645117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Were",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Aoko Were",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. On Friday and Saturday last week, the Committee had a retreat with stakeholders together with the Ministry to review this Bill. A report has been prepared but it was not ready for your approval. It will be tabled tomorrow. On the same note, because of the requirements of the Constitution that the public must participate in the passing of Bills, last week on Friday in the Daily Nation and The Standard, the National Assembly published an advert requesting any interested stakeholders to send in their memoranda to reach the National Assembly on or before 14th April 2016, which is Thursday this week. Kenya ratified the International Convention against Doping in Sport. This Convention places certain obligations on the country such as having legislation to fight doping in sport. It also requires the country to have an institution for carrying out anti-doping activities such as testing athletes, research, investigations and prosecuting offenders, and to combat illegal sale, distribution, stocking and trafficking in prohibited substances. Kenya is also a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code 2015, which is the constitution of anti-doping in the world. It governs specific aspects of anti-doping such as regulating how testing should be carried out globally, the manner of analysing samples, the sanctions to be visited on sports persons globally, production of international standards such as the prohibited list, the international standards for laboratories, the international standards for therapeutic use exemptions, among others. These standards offer strict guidelines to be adopted by signatories. For example, the prohibited list contains all substances that can be used to unfairly enhance performance. Their use in sport is, therefore, banned. A taskforce was set up some time back to investigate the doping level in Kenya and a report was completed in 2014. The report revealed as follows:- (i) That doping or use of prohibited substances in Kenya is very rampant; (ii)"
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