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    "id": 874696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ikolomani, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Bernard Shinali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1598,
        "legal_name": "Benard Masaka Shinali",
        "slug": "benard-masaka-shinali"
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    "content": "looking at last year’s Budget, the Ministry of Sports and Heritage presented a budget of Kshs5.3 billion, but they were only given Kshs1.8 billion. That clearly confirms that sports are not taken seriously by this Government. The National Sports Fund that now directly operates under the Ministry of Sports and Heritage will sort out so many problems, including the embarrassments that we have had as a country. It will bring back the fame that the sportsmen and sportswomen of this country have brought us. Looking at the cash awards that we have since been promising sportsmen and sportswomen of this country, we also realised that there is a Kshs267 million pending debt due to our sportsmen and sportswomen who have performed and brought us gold, silver and bronze medals. As a Committee, we were happy that the Fund will now be controlled under the Ministry of Sports and Heritage under the trustees that have already been nominated. Going forward, we shall see an improvement in the funding of stadia because the monies will be run through the Ministry. Outside the Ministry, we have had several sources of funding which brings confusion and breeds a lot of theft and pilferage in building the stadia. Nyayo Stadium and others are being funded by several entities and this has created problems. Finally, since so much has been covered, I do not want to repeat. I will be proposing an amendment to make sure that the 35 per cent allocation that has been proposed is money that will go to sports. When we express in written terms that “not more than 35 per cent”, the term “not more than 35 per cent” could even be 0.5 per cent. With that, I still see sports being under- funded. I believe it should be changed and renamed “at least 35 per cent” which means a minimum of 35 per cent of the funds collected should go to sports to support athletics and football in this country. We have a lot of talent. We require stadia to be built all over the country. I am not happy with the way regional stadia have been spread. We have not seen part of Nyanza, Western and Trans Nzoia being represented or allocated any regional stadia. We have a lot of talent in those regions. I beg to support this Bill. It is a good Bill which will sort out the problems we have been facing."
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