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    "id": 839800,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. When Eliud Kipchoge broke this record in Berlin, I was having breakfast with the former President of Ghana, John Kufuor and with him were former Ministers of his Government. You would have thought that I was the one who had broken the record. I was hugged, greeted and cheered. I felt very proud to be a Kenyan. Mr. Speaker, Sir, our young athletes have done this country proud. Immediately we celebrated Eliud Kipchoge, Gladys Cherono was on heels to win the Berlin Marathon as well. I like the confidence of Eliud Kipchoge. When he left Kenya he said that he would attempt to break the world record in Berlin. He ended up breaking the world record by shaving off more than a minute; a period that may take the next ten years to break by any other Kenyan, perhaps by himself if he tries next year, and he promised to do so. As we put things into perspective, once in a while, I sit in the club in this town with Mzee Kipchoge Keino, who is a good friend. When you listen to him, you will realize that he is an encyclopedia of our athletics. In the string of all he says, are endless frustrations of athletics from everybody including the State. Even in Berlin, when Eliud Kipchoge broke the world record, he was draped in a BMW flag and not the Kenyan flag. The Kenyan Ambassador and staff of our Embassy were there. What was so difficult about going there carrying a Kenyan flag, even if he did not break the world record? The fact that he was participating, was enough to market the country with our flag. These are some of the things that we need to address to support our athletes. When Pamela Jelimo, the first woman in Kenya at the age of 19, won the Golden Circuit, I honoured her by calling her to my office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was brought by Hon. Hellen Sambili and I gave her a diplomatic passport; the first athlete to spot a diplomatic passport."
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