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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "our young people. We have so much talent in this country starting from down at the village coming upwards. I realise these days even the football teams only look in the urban areas for players when we have raw talent down in the villages. Even West African countries have academies for different agencies. You will find the under 10, the under 14, the under 17 and the under 20 going up like that. Before a player graduates to go a senior team, he has passed through so many stages. That is how you find that some of these countries are doing very well. A country like Iceland has a population of 300,000 people and it has a team at the World Cup competing among the best in the world. That shows how important some of this investment can bring. This also is a game changer because it will bring our young people to be more productive, to use their talent and avoid some of these activities that lead them to illicit activities. Those who are involved in funny things will be busy with this thing. In my constituency, I normally host a tournament once a year and I realise it is not enough. During that time, you see a beehive of activities. You see young people turning up. Over 100 teams register to play. That shows the enthusiasm of those young people. They just lack somebody to motivate them. If we invest in sports, it will bring out a lot of raw talent from the young people who will come and demonstrate the gifts that God has given them. It is for us as leaders, the Government and all of us together to make this a priority and ensure that we help those young fellows because these days, sports are a big investment. You realise that some of the best paid people in the world today are sportsmen. There is no CEO of any company in the world who earns the kind of money that the boxer called Mayweather earns. Not even the President earns the kind of salary that some of the best footballers like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and even our own, Victor Wanyama, are paid. It is something that we must look at and develop so that we reach the same level as those other nations. You can never go wrong with it. When Hon. Osotsi brought this, he was looking inside-out and seeing how we can help to create employment for our youth and occupy them positively."
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