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"content": "You have to agree that the Catholic Church has a unique way of doing formation of their priests, sisters and brothers. He was talking about the vetting of the trainers. They must be people who are beyond reproach because they are the ones who are teach the doctrine of the church. For example, he was using the Catholic Church, that was being presided today by Bishop Owaa of Ngong Diocese. The same should be the case with the vetting of our sports academies. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, are you aware that some people walk in, through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), using tourist visa and two weeks later, they are training athletes in Iten? Which country are we in? In fact, if you are in Tanzania and do not have a visa, you will not finish two hours before being deported. However, in Kenya, somebody lands in JKIA as a tourist, goes to high altitude training areas like Iten, Nandi Hills and Kaptagat, Nakuru, Keringet and starts training. Sadly, at the end of the day, they make sure that they promote doping. It is very unfortunate. That the Government and the anti-doping agents must come out and condemn this strongly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy Sen. Kisang’ is in the House because I know he suffers most, especially with trainers that are not appropriately trained and vetted. Even on the issue of hardship allowance, I do not support hardship allowance to be removed. In Nandi County, we want places like Terige, Kapchorwa and Sobasongo and Chepterwai to be categorized as part of the hardship areas so that teachers and civil servants can earn hardship allowances. Even in Bomet County, in areas like Chepalungu, where you come from, they must be given hardship allowance. That comment was made in bad faith by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and he must retract it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I saw the Deputy Minority Whip today in the House saying that there is no broad-based government. We have a broad-based government. This broad-based government has brought equity and equality in terms of service provision under President William Ruto and Raila Amollo Odinga. It is unfortunate that Sen. Sifuna can use the Floor of the House to say that, yet he is the Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) when we signed in the broad-based government at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). If he has a problem with Cabinet Secretaries Opiyo Wandayi and John Mbadi, those are political differences that they should do in funerals and rallies during the weekend. He should respect the President. Sen. Oburu Odinga spoke eloquently and powerfully before President Ruto in Migori and said that the ODM and United Democratic Movement (UDA) are working through broad-based arrangement, including establishing sports academies in our counties. Where does he get the audacity of lecturing and saying there is no broad-based government? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "If you want to know what Raila thinks, listen to Sen. Oburu. If you want to read the body language of Raila Odinga, listen to John Mbadi. It is very critical. I am making a very pregnant point. Can you add me one minute so that I can conclude by seconding? So if you can see the body language of Oburu, Mbadi, Junet Mohammed, you know that is Raila speaking. I am warning Sen. Sifuna to tread carefully. His future in ODM looks bleak. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to second."
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"content": " Hon. Senators, I now propose the Question."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Sports (Amendment) Bill that is before the House, to set up sports academies in our counties. If you scan across the country, the only sport that is still booming or doing well in the country is athletics. The reason why athletics is doing well is because it is individual-based. It is up to the athlete to train maybe with the team managers and coaches. They work out on their own. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you check the other sports, for instance, tennis, cricket and football, you will realize that we are doing badly because of mismanagement by either the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports or those who are basically elected to steer and drive these particular sports. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with the proposal to set up sports academies in our constituencies, it will basically promote, enhance, professionalize and nurture talent at an early age for our youth, because we have a big problem of unemployment. Sports is one of the areas where talent can be nurtured, yet our youth and sports women and men cannot make money and get resources to build themselves. I remember, when we were in primary and high schools, schools like St. Patrick's High School, Iten, used to have a particular teacher who was in charge of sports. For instance, for St. Patrick High School, Iten, we had Brother Colm, who used to go around during the second term when they had athletics across the country. He would spot talent and pick boys who were doing well and they would be admitted to St. Patrick High School, Iten and pursue the line. This was the same also with other schools. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to go back to that, spot talent early. We can take these youths to a sports academy so that we can have Kenyans playing professionally, both internationally and locally. We have the likes of Yego who was playing javelin. It is because we do not have sports academies. We are losing a lot of talent because we do not have a programme on how to spot and nurture a talent, so that it can progress. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill. I would like to urge our governors, that, since sports is devolved, to partner with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports and set up sports academies across the country. They have the resources. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we want to encourage also our members of the National Assembly because in the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), which we are now doing public participation on to ensure that we entrench it in the Constitution, there is a percentage dedicated to sports. They could start with 2 per cent as suggested here. Perhaps, we need to enhance it to 5 per cent so that they can partner with the governors to build up sports grounds. The governors can also partner with national Government to ensure we have stadia across the country. Kipchoge Stadium was supposed to be rebuilt to a modern stadium with a gymnasium and a sports academy attached to it. The same applies to Kamariny Stadium. Luckily, the other day things, the tenders were awarded. I hope the contractors who will be put in place will do a good job so that our athletes can have somewhere to train from. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is something that Sen. Cherarkey brought up. That there are many foreigners who are training in our high altitude grounds, especially in Iten. There are those who are training in Kapsabet and across the country, in Nakuru and Nanyuki. However, some of them are coming into the country without proper paperwork. Some come as tourists and train, yet, training is not tourism. So, we need to put in also mechanisms in place so that the counties and the country can get revenue when these athletes come to train in our country. Some of them have even come and trained. Somehow, when they go to compete internationally, have beaten our athletes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important that when the country is planning on issues, they need to be careful. We should not rush some matters. In fact, I was surprised. In the North Rift region, Turkana, West Pokot and Elgeyo Marakwet counties, and in some areas they have talked about the area in Chepalungu, I do not know whether the Executive, especially the Cabinet Secretaries, just came up with some funny policies in the morning and said. “From tomorrow, we are not doing this.” I do not know whether the Executive, especially the Cabinet Secretaries, just came up with some funny policies in the morning and said, “From tomorrow, we are not doing this.” They need to know that the country is in a different era. We have a new Constitution where public participation is paramount. As we do these sports academies, we urge the Ministry responsible to do proper public participation so that the people are involved. The people should decide where the sports academies are located in the counties. For Elgeyo Marakwet County, we have had academies in Moi Kapcherop Girls in the Sengwer Ward and we have some in Iten. So, basically, we are asking the Ministry and the counties to sit down, do public participation so that we can identify areas where these sports academies will be, so that we nurture talent. Let our youth make money. Even as they do this, we are sending a warning to those who are responsible for this particular reclassification of areas from hardship to non-hardship. They say moderate hardship and then severe hardship. Elgeyo Marakwet County has been affected severely by insecurity. There is a lot of drought. We have three regions. We have a hanging valley in Elgeyo Marakwet County where there are no roads. How do these people expect the civil servants, teachers and our nurses not to benefit from hardship allowances? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "I do not know how they arrived at saying that Elgeyo Marakwet County does not deserve to be a hardship area or region. Was there any public participation? There was none. So, we are giving a warning that as leaders from regions they want to remove from hardship; we are watching you. They need to rethink what they have done and rescind their decisions because we do not want our people to go back to the streets. The payslips are already suffering. We have the Housing Levy Fund, SHA and NSSF deductions. Yet they want to remove the hardship allowance for God's sake? I do not think that people will accept this. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I support the Sports (Amendment) Bill."
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"content": " Thank you, Sen. Kisang’. I will now call upon Sen. Mungatana to make his contributions."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The Sports (Amendment) Bill, (Senate Bills No.2 of 2024) seeks to amend the main Sports Act by inserting an amendment after Section 38, which seeks to make it mandatory that each county shall establish a sports academy. I am fortunate to have a daughter who is studying in Madrid, Spain, right now, in one of the universities that is sponsored by one of the biggest football clubs in the world. They not only have a sports academy or a football academy; it is a university that is dedicated to sporting activity. So, I have a little experience of how a sports academy should look like. This law has come at a good time in this country because many of our youths have not been supported in their talents. Those who have musical talents have gone into the digital space and they have made a living out of it. However, those with football, athletic, volleyball and swimming talents, it has been very difficult and unless you come from a privileged family, you cannot make it. When I had an office practicing as a lawyer somewhere up the road in Kikuyu, I remember one young man coming to see me. He told me, he had a running talent, but did not have anybody to stand with him. We got to know each other when he was washing my car. I saw something different in him. When I was engaging him, he told me he would come to see me in my office so that he would explain to me his predicament and why he cleans cars. He told me that he cleans cars because he was trying to raise money so that he can run in a paid race. As he cleaned these cars, he was also trying to get good food to eat so that he could eat the required food. He could hardly pay his coach. He ran away from the first person who sponsored him because he was exploiting him. He made him sign a contract that when he runs and becomes number two, he would take almost everything. He did not know anything about the sports business when he started running. So, he lost and did not make money. Therefore, he terminated that contract and was trying to freelance while looking for people to support him. I did what I could with that young man. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first of all, let us state that when this Bill becomes law, we will have sports academies, not football academies. Most people in Kenya confuse sports with football or athletics. No, no, no, it is not running and footballing The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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