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    "id": 874761,
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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "I represent the Rift Valley in the Kenya Football Federation. I remember one day Oserian Football Club had an opportunity to play an Egyptian team at Nyayo Stadium. Some crooks around here came and asked how much they could fetch from the match and they were told they would be given Kshs1 million shillings. Oserian thought that they actually got value for that money. They took the Kshs1 million very fast only for those crooks to go and negotiate with Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and because that team was from Egypt and was sponsored by Coca-Cola, this group negotiated with Al Hilal FC through Coca-Cola. They went and paid for the transmission rights at KCB at only Kshs 3.5 million and the crooks were paid Kshs15 million. So they took the rest of the money when actually this money ought to have gone to that club which had invested so much and to the players. So, it is important for us to look at the television rights. I agree with Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy on this aspect of building big stadiums. It will never improve the standards of any sport in this country. The other day we were telling the NG-CDF that they need to consider constituencies to nurture talents through constructing medium-sized stadiums. Where I come from, we have a ground called Kamukunji and there is no grass on it at all and it is because of poor maintenance by the county government. It belongs to a school and we would want to improve it so that we can have effective players mentored there. I am saying this because Nakuru has almost 20 players playing football in South Africa which is a very good indicator. They are role models to the upcoming ones. So we would want the NG-CDF to think about pumping Kshs5million into to every constituency. The money that we get from NG-CDF for sports is only 2 per cent. This cannot improve sports. I remember in the National Government Development Constituencies Fund Act we had agreed in some clause that we can get some funds from other Government sources and not necessarily from NG-CDF. So we would want to see whether in that Act they can propose to pump in Kshs5million to NG-CDF towards the improvement of sports facilities. I have talked about former players such as Francis Kadenge who died in a miserable way. Conjestina, the only female boxer that made us proud and took us somewhere in the boxing world map is now facing many problems."
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