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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You caught me by surprise because I had delayed for too long. From the outset, I support Hon. Osotsi for tabling this Motion. We have been discussing this issue. It has come a bit too late while we have just passed the Budget. I am not sure whether the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism will put it in the next Budget. I suggest that like the way we want to do constituency innovation hubs, also the Ministry of Sports and Culture should bring in a fund which we should join as Members of Parliament and go to the constituencies to set up these sports academies. Sports academies are not necessarily football, we are looking at a complete sports academy that has football, studio and many other facilities. We have a lot of talent in art. In my constituency, there a lot of musicians and they need a studio where they can record their music at cheaper rates. When you look at upcoming sportsmen, Nyahururu sometime back had the Nderebas and the Wanjirus. You look at Eldoret, it is called the city of champions because every runner is emulating the guys who were there before and there are sports academies in those regions. We have one in Iten, one in Kaptagat and one in Nandi area. We should have these ones everywhere. We will tap in a lot of money to the country. When you see how much a single athlete can win in a marathon in New York, if we have 10 or 20 from all the constituencies in the country, then we are looking at growth and development in our country. We are now in the field of football because of the World Cup and we are looking at the sports academies because of the football bonanza that is happening in Russia. We are looking at raw talents that have come out from areas like Panama. Small countries like Iceland which have 300,000 people are producing a lot of talent because the country has put money where it matters and where it matters is the development of our youth. We need these youth taken away from the drugs and shopping centres the whole day. We need the parents to have entertainment. With these sport academies, the people in the village will go and watch their children, boys and girls grow in talent. In so doing, you are reducing the risks of idleness and health risks caused by inactivity. When you look at Iten, Paula Radcliffe comes to Iten for training and pays a lot of money in the small cottages that have been put up in that Kipchoge Keino Sports Academy. We are looking at Kenya having very good weather and a high altitude for training. You will find people coming from all over the world. For a long time, we had a lot of boxers who were winning medals in the Olympics because we had social halls. In Shauri Moyo, we had a social hall in every estate. If we put money in these sports academies, we will have a lot of boxers going for Olympics and earning a lot of money like the likes of Mayweather, Mr. moneybag, who are earning billions . So, from the outset, Mr. Osotsi, should push this to the sports committee and we include it in the next Budget and have collaboration like the ICT hubs where the constituencies and the Government have collaboration so that they can run well. We should put it directly in the Budget in the next financial year so that we have money allocated to the sports academies and we move on. I am sure our country will change forever. Thank you."
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