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    "id": 946714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "That is just because she has not been trained to handle the media in such an international glare. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a duty to help these young Kenyans and train them. You can imagine when Kipchoge won and broke this record; Obama tweeted about him. The President of Kenya and many other dignitaries talked to him. These are the real ambassadors of Kenya; not those who eat caviar and drink wine, whiskey and champagne every evening in unknown places. They go out there, carrying our flag. When Eliud Kipchoge broke the world record earlier on in Berlin, immediately he finished he was handed over a flag of BMW, a motor vehicle manufacturing company in Germany, to wear and run around it. I asked where the Kenyans were. We have an embassy and ambassador in Berlin. I am sure he has Kenyan flags in his office. He did not go there to receive Kipchoge. Kipchoge was looking embarrassed running around with the BMW flag on his back. However, in Vienna, it was different. I was impressed. For the first time, I saw a leading athlete being received at the finishing line by his family; his wife and children were there. Our Deputy President was there with a Kenyan flag. Kenyans were there cheering on. Since I am sure my colleagues want to speak to this, I want to urge that we need to formulate a policy. Do not leave these things to the Kenya Athletics Association and whatever; they are run by criminal cartels. For them, these young athletes are an instrument of making money. You remember the scandal in Rio, where Kenyan athletes who were going to get medals for Kenya flew Economy Class. The officials of Kenya Athletics and their families were flying First Class. When they were in Rio, our athletes were being given a daily stipend of $50, while the athletics managers were getting $1,000 a day. One was even arrested with athletics uniforms meant for our athletes that should have been used in Rio, which he was keeping in his house in Nairobi. We need to formulate a law. Sen. Cheruiyot, we need to sit down and formulate one. We will bring it to this House and let it go to the other House, to acknowledge and protect our athletes from both the local managers of athletics and the international agents that pry on them. This is because you will find that sometimes when an athlete earns Kshs50 million, more than half the amount goes to an agent. We need to protect them on that. I do not know if you have been seeing cartoon strips in the newspapers. One has a taxman from Kenya Revenue Authority waiting with a hammer for Mr. Kipchoge to 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."
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