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    "id": 808943,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated Member, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacquiline Oduol",
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        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would also like to congratulate and thank Hon. Osotsi for bringing this important Motion. I want to also recognise that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism, where I am member, Dr. Victor Munyaka, has indicated that we would like to get a Bill out of it. I just want to emphasise one key issue that, in my view, is really important as we think about this Motion. When we talk about young people, we sometimes do not recognise that if we do not harness their energy in a systematic way and bring sports for the purpose of ensuring that we give them a way to engage and a way to compete favourably, we leave them to a lot of vices such as drug abuse and engaging in other areas where we see very high levels of unwanted pregnancies. We end up in a context where parents start talking of introducing their young children to contraceptives. So, there is one specific point, in my view, of ensuring that we can provide sports academies so that we can cater for our young people. We can nurture and introduce them to very healthy competition and we can ensure that we do not keep them glued to social media and get addictions that are not productive. As I conclude, we need to be a little more vigilant in terms of allocating resources and really pooling what we already have. At the moment, we have community clubs and it will be useful that, as we begin to talk about this, we conclude it. Finally, in the interest of sports, I can see Hon. Sankok is, indeed, giving me a very good way to compete favourably in sports. Hon. Sankok is 001. I know earlier we assumed that we only have one nominee 001 because somehow nominee 001 Sankok is very vocal on this. However, in the interest of the handshake, as we look across, we will see that we have 001 Hon. Sankok and 001 Hon. (Prof.) Oduol. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion."
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