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    "id": 874735,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/874735/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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        "legal_name": "Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "Kenyans are wired for sports. They love sports. Our youth require something else. We look at our youth and keep saying they are taking drugs and alcohol. The discipline of sports does not go with alcohol and drugs. We have seen a lot of people who are running sporting clubs in the country and working towards ensuring that the children coming into sports stop taking drugs and alcohol so that there is a lot of rehabilitation, education and sensitisation. When you bring them together, it also goes into the concept of Nyumba Kumi because you are nurturing a community and people get to know each other. That way, we can also deal with extremism though sports. Kenya has seen a lot of corruption in sports. I feel that right now the country is geared to deal with corruption. So, we hope that this Fund will be well managed. The money for this Fund will also see other sports being funded. There is a sport called Kabaddi . They learnt it on internet. They are able to bring Gold when Kabaddi goes to Olympics. To get money for a discipline other than athletics from the Ministry of Sports is almost impossible. So, we need to see that the money that they will get will not just fund athletics, but will also look into all the other disciplines. I feel that the private sector has been instrumental in helping us grow sports but, of course, even there, we need to find incentives. So, another way to ensure that the whole sporting agenda and the Fund is successful is to ensure that within our own country, we keep talking about sports so that it becomes an income earner as we go and play outside Kenya. We have seen that even in volleyball locally, there are clubs that poach players locally so that they can represent them. We need to try and build the culture of sports so that we can fill our stadia to also appreciate our own inter-county games."
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