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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "young people regarding their development and growth outside the classroom a success and widespread as it should be. It has remained in a small number of schools across the counties and we will change this through this Bill. I am convinced of the program spreading to most schools in all the counties and more young people benefiting from it. In the United Kingdom (UK), we share a lot from our colonial history. The President‟s Award Scheme is called the Emperor Award Scheme and they have pretty much very corresponding systems like the gold, silver and bronze awards, which require you to do some studying and knowledge of yourself. It requires you to learn some skills and show proficiency in some skills. It requires you to demonstrate physical fitness and capacity. You may look at me now and you might not think much of me as an athlete, but I was a cross country runner in high school and that was my proof for physical fitness to get through my bronze award. When I got my silver award, I had to show I could sprint. I know the Chair of my Committee is looking stupendously amazed at what gallant athlete I used to be in my heyday. It is true and I am happy to put that on record. On the silver award, there were requirements for jumping and I was terrible. There was the pole vault and triple jump. For the triple jump, I did okay because I have long legs, but for the high jump, I made the biggest cartoon of myself and entertained my peers the number of times I was required to prove that I was not just taking advantage of my long legs to jump the triple jump. I was required to show if I could do the high jump. That is a beautiful memory which myself and my classmates will remember how I struggled to jump even one metre on the pole vault and how I struggled to jump even one metre on the pole vault. Every time I came with a stick to run, I just chickened and chopped out. It is a life experience. I have shared my experience from the bronze expedition. We went to Mua Hills School. I was a boy who had grown up in Kibra Constituency and had never been out on a long hike. So, it was quite an experience and it was a one night out camping. On the first afternoon of a whole day hiking, I was sweating and the sweat was on my body and causing me hypothermia without realising it. By the time I got to the camp in the evening, at Mua High School, I was shivering, scared and I do not think I had the right gear. It took the support and commitment of my peers to make sure I did not give up. We were navigating by compass in the bushes and we were carrying our rucksacks with our food and supplies for the night. When we got to the camp in the evening, someone from the school had come with a Land Rover and they offered us an opportunity to go back. I was to make a choice between going back to sleep on my bed at school and shivering in a tent all night eating food we had cooked by camp fire, which was such an experience for me. I made a decision to stay, but it required the commitment and loyalty of my team mates to say it is okay they would not leave me behind when hiking. They slowed down and helped me to carry my luggage to finish the expedition. That value of teamwork, leadership skills, never giving up on your team members and helping each other achieve something together is important. The whole group completed the expedition and not just the ten who started because only nine completed. The brothers with a spirit of comradeship are the values of leadership that I learnt in high school. This matters to me even today when I take care of my staff and the people who work for me and help me deliver. I think about commitment and never giving up on my people in Kibra Constituency. These are the type of things that matter. I am really excited that we have the President‟s Award Scheme and as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, this had been our Bill. We had owned it and brought it, but as it is, it is a Bill about youth development and education. I am 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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