GET /api/v0.1/hansard/entries/946673/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 946673,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/946673/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 359,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the third lot that we are celebrating is the team that we sent to Doha to represent us in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships. We had a total of 206 countries and Kenya finished second. That is no mean achievement. The question that we should be asking ourselves is what we are doing as a country and leadership to ensure that the great performance continues to be celebrated. There are many other Eliud Kipchoges who are unable to thrive perhaps because of the dilapidated nature of our sports arena across the country. It is not only in athletics. We are talking about the same in football, basketball, handball and all sorts of disciplines which, unfortunately, because of lack of investment--- If you look at the budgets of the past few years, the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage gets the least allocation yet this is an industry that is capable of earning this country more revenue in terms of our athletes going out to concur the world. Eliud Kipchoge will come back to this country with is a significant amount of money. That is investment to Kenya just by one simple athlete going and doing the unimagined. If we have a thousand of Eliud Kipchoges, we will not need to borrow and expand our debt ceiling to fund the operations of the Government in this country. The Government will be able to at least get something and there will be significant investment into this country. Therefore, I urge this House that in the next few months when we will consider the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the Fiscal Strategy Paper, let us for once as a House, resoundingly say something about the misplaced priority in terms of sports management in this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}