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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to congratulate all the students who have come to Parliament courtesy of our substantive Speaker and Member for Kibwezi East who was very much respected. Karibuni. Under the Standing Orders, there is no way you can invite the Deputy Minority Whip when the Leader of the Majority Party is here. However, because Hon. Chrisantus Wamalwa is a good friend of mine, I can allow him to speak before me. I want to thank the 11th Parliament and colleagues who have come all the way from their recess for this Special Sitting. I am sure we came here under Article 95(4) so that we make sure that our sportsmen and sportswomen are not locked out. I want to go on record today that Kenya is the third country globally that has complied. But the question that begs is why Britain has not complied. The only country in Europe that has complied with this requirement is France and I think we are the only ones in Africa. But we are the only ones again who are being given a deadline. Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia are not being given the same deadline. The story behind that is because we are very great in sports and we have many enemies in the world. The people who always become Number 7, 8 and 9 in any race found out that the only way, however much they train and exercise, they can become Number 1, 2, 3 and 4 is to bar Kenyans from participating by introducing the Anti-Doping law. However, as the 11th Parliament, we are telling them all the tricks they want to use to bar Kenya will never succeed. The leadership of Parliament in both Houses is ready to perform its legislative functions. The Ministry of Sports, the Office of the Attorney-General (AG) and the Executive in general are ready. I am sure that this House and the Senate agreed not to do any amendments when we did the first law. We were domesticating an international law. Because we specifically came back today, on behalf of our sportsmen and sportswomen, I am sure that this will give them more motivation. It will also help our colleagues from constituencies where sportsmen and sportswomen come from. I do not know why I cannot see the marathoner, the Member for Cherangany Constituency here. Even though he lost the Boston Marathon race about two months ago, he was number four. We assure him and his colleagues that we are back for a one-day Special Sitting for them. We thank the Speaker for allowing it. We thank the Office of the Clerk for making sure that this facilitation is done. We thank the Chairman and members of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, the Ministry of Sports, Culture and the Arts, the Attorney-General’s Office, our Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Foreign Affairs and our diplomats who went all the way to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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