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    "id": 839774,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "We must also provide for them a plan. Unfortunately, some of the athletes that I have interacted with did not even finish Form Four, because of orientation or financial challenges that they had in their families. Those who finish Form Four may not have any other higher education. I see some people laughing at athletes because they cannot pronounce well English or Kiswahili words. We laugh at our athletes, but do not laugh at Germans when they struggle to pronounce English, French or Polish words. We must not be ashamed of them. I have always told our athletes to speak in Kiswahili language when they are interviewed. It is the business of the organisers of the tournament to make sure that there is an interpreter. For example, whenever Russians speak during competitions, they do so in their language. It is the business of those who interpret to do so to a language that is understood by other people in the world. I do not want our athletes to feel enslaved by struggling to communicate in a foreign language. If they have to speak Kalenjin, Kikuyu or Luo language, let them do so without feeling ashamed. Let the organisers of the race avail interpreters for them. In any case, that is a language understood by a section of the people in the world. We should not make it look like it is only by speaking a particular language that you become educated. Education is more than going to school. Where they need that education, it is the duty of the State to prepare a conducive environment to expose them to education. By doing so, they can still pursue that education if they need it. They can use it after they retire from athletics and be better managers of their lives and resources."
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