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    "id": 874807,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/874807/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Nguchine Kirima",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Bill as it is. This Bill is very important taking into account that it is timely. It is high time we promoted sports in our constituencies. Sports have not been given the seriousness they deserve in many parts of Kenya. If you look at our region of Mt. Kenya, sports are not taken as something that can benefit the common mwananchi . Sports are mostly conducted in secondary schools at an early stage and that is just about them. Financing is embodied in this amendment Bill. If the money will be channelled through the constituencies, as it has been done with other development money, it means that we are going to nurture talents. We will have an opportunity to expose talents. That way, we will even create more opportunities for our sportsmen and sportswomen. As it is now, when we hear of sports, we only hear of athletics, especially in Rift Valley, Nairobi, Nyanza and Western regions. Even if you look at the previous officials of the Sports Board, you will realise that they mainly come from those regions. It is because that is where sports are promoted. If we pass this Bill, I believe that we are all going to be given equal opportunities. Every Kenyan kid will come out as a sports person because they will be given the benefit of sports at an early age. What they do not know will now be exposed to them. I support this Bill as it is except that I also support the amendment to have the Fund go through the constituency level so that it can reach each and every part of Kenya. I support. 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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