Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 806954,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/806954/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 164,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13172,
        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
        "slug": "godfrey-osotsi"
    },
    "content": " Well, I sympathise with my colleague for that condition. No one knows the exact causes of cancer. There are a lot of speculations here and there. Even cancer aside, exercise is very important for your own physical and mental health. When it comes to youth activities, we always complain that we do not have funds, but this country has a lot of money and it can invest in the youth. In this Budget, we have allocated over Kshs30 billion to go to social safety net, which is for the older people. How I wish part of this money could be allocated to sports academies. We meet the elders and they tell us they have not got the money. So they need to consider investing part of this money in sports academies. We have also talked about betting and the Sports Fund. Since the Fund was started, I am told there has been very little activity around it. Now with betting, we expect that the Fund will be facilitated and used to support the creation of sports facilities in counties, constituencies and also to support sports in this country. The sportsmen in this country should be appreciated because they are our ambassadors. We have great sportsmen in this country, people like Kadenge, who are dying poor. They should not die poor. If you go to a country like Brazil, Pele is their ambassador number one. When our youth see that we value our sportsmen they will try and do better and sports will be better in this country. We also need to invest in facilities. I want to encourage the counties to invest in sports programmes. For example, the County of Kakamega under Hon. Oparanya has come up with a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}