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    "id": 839830,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, allow me to take this chance because I have not had any chance to speak, to thank our Speaker, Hon. Kenneth Lusaka and my colleague Senators, for the brotherly and sisterly love they showed me recently when I had a fire tragedy in my family. I can never adequately express the happiness for the care and concern they showed me. Further, Sen. Naomi Shiyonga and Sen. Farhiya visited me at my home. That was, indeed, a lot of blessings to me. I can never thank you enough. May God bless you. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me add my voice to today‟s Motion. I thank the Mover. Sport is Kenya‟s pride. I also commend Eliud Kipchoge for what he did recently. I would have wished that more ladies were mentioned here because there are of them who have also broken records. Yesterday, we were advised on how to go about it, so that we also recognise ladies. We are in the county of champions. Sportsmen and women have taken the lead in terms of investments in this particular county. In my county of Bomet, the first high-rise building was built by an athlete. The building is named Boston Marathon because that is where the athlete achieved the medal. Secondly, recently, Bomet County was in frenzy because of two athletes; Beatrice Chepkoech and Kipng‟etich Ng‟eno, who won in the just concluded marathon. One sub- county in Konoin Constituency prides itself as the home of champions because of those two athletes. Mark you, they were not even position one; they were position two. We were so excited. I wish to support the idea of putting in place a proper policy, so that athletes are assisted in managing the finances they get out of this. In addition, their pension will assist them in future, so that they do not languish in poverty, like we have seen in most cases. Recently, I had a chance to lead a delegation to Australia. The greatest challenge was resources, especially sports attire and shoes. We can still remember a scenario where sports uniform was stolen. When the Commonwealth Games were being opened in Australia, we were very ashamed because other countries came in very colourful attire. However, our athletes managed to shine."
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