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    "id": 71898,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otuoma",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Youth and Sports",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, he just asked me what I was going to do. The Bill was ready, but we were clearing with the Treasury because of some financial implications. We have already finished that. So, the Bill will soon be tabled before the Cabinet and then it comes here. I want to assure you that there will be professionalism when it comes to recruiting coaches, so that there is continuity. I totally agree with you that when you have got a very high turn-over, already that is an indicator of some problems somewhere. The problem may not be the coaches. The problem has been the leadership in the federations that you recruit somebody today and tomorrow he is gone. Even Ghost Mulei, I do not think he is hardly two months old and he has already resigned. On the issue of the people we will appoint to the Board, I just want to emphasize where sports have reached in this country, it is now a very large industry. There are a lot of livelihoods that depend on sports and sports related activities. So, it is my wish that as we formulate this Board to take care of Harambee Stars, it will be made up of men and women of integrity and achievement. People who can really look at sports in a completely different perspective and run it the way sports are supposed to run. Sports are supposed to be making money. It is not a net consumer of money. In fact, it is a net provider to the economy. That is the kind of a Board that I will be looking at. On the issue of the two federations, I have addressed myself to this. We will have only one federation in the country. If you look at Article 10 (6) of the FIFA Statutes, you will find that it recognizes a country and one federation. The only exemption is the United Kingdom where they recognize Scotland and Wales. Otherwise, for the rest of the world, it is one country, one sporting federation. That is the way we will go; we will not have two federations running football in this country."
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