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    "id": 818053,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu West, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Naisula Lesuuda",
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        "legal_name": "Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion with some riders on it. It is very important that we have national stadia that will specifically be dedicated to rugby. It is also one that talks of high performance centers of excellence. I also think that it is important that we start with one. We are always very ambitious. We had the five stadia - what we are still waiting for. It is even important that this House is apprised on how far we have gone with the five and see whether one of them can be made to be for rugby. It is one thing for us to comment on issues here, pass Motions but the actual doing and which we know that it requires finances, I think it is important that we know how far we have gone with the five. I am aware that in some counties the progress is going on albeit quite slow but it is important that before we talk about a new one, we know about the other stadia that are going on. We cannot overemphasise the importance of sports in our country for our young people. We have also seen how it usually unifies us. You know when rugby is playing or when our athletes are running and everybody is waking up at funny hours to watch, we see unity in it. They are Kenyans then and we are all so happy when our flag goes up. It is only when they come back home that we want to know which tribe this person is from. Sports have a unifying factor for us as a country and it is something that we must support. On issues rugby, we know that the players are doing their own professions and they are just playing rugby sometimes as a hobby. It is important that we think about it as a profession itself so that we can show that sports pays off. We know many students who have gotten scholarship because of sports but we lose a lot of talent after our students finish high school or universities. That is where we tend to nurture talents especially sports but thereafter, we do not continue to make it a profession, we leave our players to donations from us politicians, other entities and sponsors but as a Government we are not really putting a lot in terms of making sure that sports can pay or sports is a profession. It is something that we must think of as a country and I think this can be a start in the right direction as we continue to promote sports across our country. 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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