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    "id": 936030,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/936030/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "problems in our sports management and even within football are so deep that they need to be looked at comprehensively. It cannot be that we are just rushing to beat a deadline of an election on Saturday. If we sit down and invite the Cabinet Secretary, the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund led by Hon. Moody Awori and his team, because they have Kshs8.1 billion that is supposed to go to sports--- Aside from FKF, there are also other federations with issues, but agreed to start with football. We want to thoroughly look at how it is being managed; whether it is doing right and where the rain started beating us. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not a rush to beat the deadline of Friday because there is an election. If we see it fit, in a week or two when we have dealt with this issue and sat down with them properly, that we need to interfere and suspend it, it has been done before. It can be suspended, so that we get our act right. Yesterday, we were sitting at the edge of our seats to see what will happen to us with Togo. This is because we do not know which match we will win or lose. We have lost confidence in how we are performing. Therefore, we want to do it comprehensively. Sen. Wetangula, you have been in football, and you know that I have also been in football. I am the patron of our biggest team in this country, AFC Leopards, and I know there are problems all over. Let us not do it in a rush just to show that we have intervened. We do not want to do it for Public Relations (PR). We want to be very thorough because football speaks to the heart of millions of Kenyans and young people. I understand Sen. Faki’s problem and urgency, but I am just urging that we take this route. It will be better in the long run for football management."
}