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    "id": 946284,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "villages and their talents are not identified and nurtured. They end up living lives of want and poverty because somebody failed to identify, nurture and enable their talents to grow. That is what is happening to our young people. I could not also help but remember how in my primary school there was this young man who was always number one in all the races; be it within the school or across schools. He was not gifted academically. I remember one time the teacher commenting about his performance in mathematics, because he only scored 4 per cent, saying that his work was only running. In other words, what he was doing was useless. Therefore, we need to turn around and change our mindset as a people. We should start appreciating the fact that talent is not necessarily academic. That people can prosper in whatever it is that God has given them, nurture it and make it possible. As leaders seated here today, one of the challenges we must bring on board is to make sure there are more resources towards sports for our young people right from the villages. So, as leaders, one of the challenges we must address in this House is how we can make sure there are more resources towards sports for our young people right from the village level. I have a son who is very sporty and that has made me get interested in matters sports. I remember one time I was talking with a cricket coach and he told me, “Do you know cricket has become a rich man’s game?” In fact, we can actually cascade it all the way to the grassroots so that more young people can learn cricket, rugby and golf, so that we start to ask ourselves how much more we can do to make it possible. If we gave more money to NG-CDF so that Members of Parliament can identify and nurture those talents at the constituency level and across counties up to the national level, I think we would achieve more. Therefore, we must ask ourselves: how much talent are we destroying by not finishing the construction of stadia that we keep seeing on television and other media? We have about 15 stadia we have not cleared paying the contractors and so work has stalled. How much talent are we killing by doing that? I hope that the oversight committee that deals with sports can begin to look at these matters critically. We need to offer real solutions that will make young people grow and become Kipchoge Keino tomorrow. Let me also add my voice to those who have spoken: We are looking forward to"
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