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    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to thank Hon. Godfrey Osotsi for moving a very important Motion. The question I want to begin by asking is: Is it possible for this to be done, for us to create sports academies in all the 290 constituencies? Let me try and put this, then, in perspective. This year alone we have allocated about Kshs2.1 billion of the Budget to the sports ministry’s recurrent expenditure. Only about KShs1.5 billion of this goes to sports development. Kshs675 million alone has been allocated to sports activities. In my view, the investment that we have put in sports is way below what needs to be done for us to be able to harness and develop our sports talent. Where else have we put money? I read in today’s Daily Nation that the House allocated Kshs3.3 billion that went into purchase of some land in Ruaraka, which turned out to be the Government buying land from itself. What could we have done with Kshs3.3 billion assuming, for the sake of argument, that one sports academy including staffing and equipment would cost Kshs30 million? We would be able to create 300 well-equipped, properly-staffed sports academies in the entire country. That is the money we just lost, if that is anything to go by. In National Youth Service II, we are told that about Kshs9.9 billion has been lost in some other scam. Out of Kshs9.9, other than the number of sports academies this could have created, there was a Bill recently on creating cancer centres in the 47 counties. Not only would we have been able to do 300 sports academies in this country, we have spare money to be able to create a cancer centre in each of the 47 counties. What am I trying to say? That we have enough money to go around, but in our Budget process, which is our primary responsibility as Members of Parliament, we put money where at the chain end of it are corruption cartels that are getting ready to pilfer this money. So this Motion calls to our conscience as Members of Parliament to try and see how we can develop sports academies. I want to challenge Mheshimiwa Osotsi that in the Sports Fund that has been created and which exists in the Sports Act, we have allocated 2.5 per cent. We factor it in for purposes of NG-CDF. We have allocated 0.3 per cent which is supposed to go to our political parties for purposes of ensuring that the institutions of governance are properly harnessed. We have provided 15 per cent to our counties to be able to devolve matters to the counties. We also have other things which have been put in the Constitution. I want to challenge him to make a basic threshold, perhaps 0.03 per cent of our projected revenue should go into sports development and a sports fund which is already established under the Sports Act. This calls for us to relook at the Sports Act itself. The sports academy is provided for and Hon. Osotsi has indicated thus. This is 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."
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