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    "id": 660697,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndiema",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Henry Tiole Ndiema",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I stand to support this Bill for the purpose of ensuring that our athletes participate in the forthcoming Olympics. I really cannot understand the reason for all this pressure by these international organisations. Kenyans are not afraid of any such laws as long as it will be fair and just to athletes. In any case, I believe that we are already signatories of the UNESCO Convention against Doping. Article 2(6) of our Constitution domesticates that Convention. We already have a law against doping in our statutes. We should now try to find out why we need to have another law in a hurry without even proper scrutiny to support that. We should be careful because, perhaps, the net is being or might be cast so wide, that it will even catch those athletes who are competent, but innocent arising from various provisions, some of which may be suggested here, as amendments. We are aware of other international legislations that have caused us problems. We are signatories to the International Criminal Court (ICC). However, some countries are not, but they want to use ICC to deal with issues in some countries. The Senate Majority Leader here indicated that, perhaps, there is a move to target us because we are leaders in athletics. To me, this sounds like we are also being taken as the examples. It is the same 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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