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    "id": 646657,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 366,
        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I commend the leadership of the Senate on both sides for having expedited the passage of this Bill which will enable our athletes to go and participate in the next Olympics and, hopefully, shine there. The understanding is that the few comments that were made on the Floor of the House were commendable in domesticating the international standards on this issue. Do not forget that this is a Bill that is meant to domesticate the international standards on this matter. Therefore, to that extent, most of the provisions here are carbon copies of the international standards. However, we have a responsibility to domesticate it to our own circumstances here. I hope that we shall be given opportunity to do it at a later stage. One of the amendments that we should make is to isolate and punish the agents and the managers of our athletes; particularly those who come from overseas. Our athletes do not understand most of these things. Most of them shoot to international stardom while still in high school, running barefoot. We cannot expect them to know all these things. It is the people who come to Kenya and want to benefit from the natural talents of our athletes that introduce them to such substances. In fact, they do not even know when they are being introduced to anti-doping. Therefore, this Bill is necessary. On other issues such as the cooperation between the National Assembly and the Senate, this will serve as a good example. I hope that it will improve. I will talk about another matter when we get to Order No.12, on mediated Bills which again, have shown that when Members of the National Assembly and the Senate sit together in a Mediation Committee, they always agree on issues which they may have had controversy over. The fact that we always agree on the mediated Bill shows that we can work together. That also signals the fact that if we have to solve the national problems that we have such as the issues of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), what do we do with it? We take it to mediation. Another example is the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) where the Chief Justice will retire and most of the judges are 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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