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    "id": 818138,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818138/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": "All sports must be given due attention in this country. It could be rugby, athletics, soccer or singing. I remember that in 2013, the Jubilee Government had proposed in its manifesto to build five stadia in the Republic of Kenya. That was just a political pronouncement. One of the reasons it did not take off is that there were no legal instruments to safeguard such pronouncements. This Motion is key to the execution of certain issues that fall within the prism of sports. Therefore, this kind of amendment, and the Motion as a whole, will safeguard the execution of sports stadia in the Republic of Kenya. The proposed amendment seeks to have a stadium in every region. This will help harness various talents that our people have. It is true that Kenyans are talented in various ways. Rugby is one of it because of our physique and diet. Rugby is a testament that you need a lot of ugali and some other good food. In order to utilise properly the physique that is utterly given by God, we must have this kind of stadium to help to build the talents in rugby. If you hear what our international players are paid out there, it will definitely blow your mind. We have backpedalled on the backbone of our economy which is agricultural intervention and tourism. Let us diversify our talents to embrace sporting as one of our foreign income earners. If you listen to international footballers, I do not want to mention them because they have not paid me to advertise them; you get really surprised at the amounts of money they make every week. This is going to be a way for Kenyans to also export various talents to improve our Gross Domestic Product. We know how much our Diaspora injects into our economy yet they do not make very much money out there. We know how much money is made courtesy of sporting. So, that will be a very good boost to the economy of this country."
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