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    "id": 645148,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/645148/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "This Bill has proposed the creation of an anti-doping agency. It is an agency that will be charged with the performance and functions that are clearly provided for in this Bill. This agency has many functions. I cannot agree more that it will require consistent funding from the Exchequer. We do not want to create an agency that will be starved of cash or will be under the mercy of the Ministry so that when they want to perform any function or any mandate given to them by this Bill they have to go begging the Ministry to fund them. We want this agency to have proper funding to perform its duties. I have looked at the composition of the board of this agency that has been proposed under Part II Clause 10. Even though it looks quite representative, I have seen that the chair is an appointee of the President and the Principal Secretary, National Treasury and the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Sports, Culture and Arts are board members. The agency has a CEO. They have five others appointed by virtue of their knowledge in sports, but they do not specify these others. We should have more participation by sports associations just like they have created in Clause 23 the Therapeutic Use Exception Committee. It looks like a good committee chaired by a medical doctor with seven years of experience in sports, two medics with experience of five years, retired international level athlete and a sports administrator who is retired. I think that because we have retired international level athletes and retired sports administrators in Kenya they should also be brought in to serve in the board. These are people who will not only bring a wealth of experience but also enrich the board in moving forward."
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