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    "id": 808931,
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    "speaker_name": "Luanda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "There is a proposal that will be coming to this House on the creation of a national sports lottery. The President himself said this in the 11th Parliament. He proposed that the national Government is going to come up with a national lottery, which will finance some of these academies in the counties. Hon. Osotsi has proposed that it should go all the way to the constituency level. I think this is a good idea, which we must run with. This House must rise up and give funding to this idea. The only way to do this is through the Budget. When discussing the Budget, one of the proposals that the Cabinet Secretary made was to increase taxes on betting companies. This should be cascaded into the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Arts to fund these kinds of ideas. The Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism must come up with structures on how funding will be used. The Committee must be ready to go round the country identifying ideas on how these funds will be implemented. The people of Luanda are ahead because we have started renovating and upgrading some of our fields. So, the children and the youth in the constituency have a place to play. This is not lip service. We know for a fact that some of the people playing in the World Cup today, their only commitment in life is football. People like Messi and Ronaldo do not have any other profession. Here in Kenya, we expect our children to go to school and become professionals like lawyers, doctors and also play games. We need to nurture talent. If you are talented in football, for example, let it be the field that earns your daily bread. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support this idea and urge our Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism to take it up and run with it."
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