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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. This is a very important Bill that will align our sports and repeal the issue of the funding such that the two trust funds at the national level can be collapsed into one. One of the biggest challenges that we face as a country is that more often when it comes to sports issues, the sportsmen and women are not the beneficiaries of some of these fundings that we put into sports. It is the officials and some employees from the Ministry. The Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries are the ones who benefit the most while the person who is doing the real work does not benefit. As we speak, there is one of our great sportsmen from Kisii who has been sick and did not even have money to pay for his hospital bill until one of our Cabinet Secretaries; Dr. Matiang’i came to his aid to pay for his hospital treatment. This is a sad situation for this country. Sport is very important. Last year when we were preparing for sports, our former Chair of the Bunge FC team Hon. Wamunyinyi who is seated here remembers that we were meeting some of the greatest sportsmen; the great footballers who have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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