{"id":1061649,"date":"2022-04-20T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/president-uhuru-flags-off-kenyas-deaflympics-team\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:44:16","slug":"president-uhuru-flags-off-kenyas-deaflympics-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/president-uhuru-flags-off-kenyas-deaflympics-team\/","title":{"rendered":"President Uhuru Flags Off Kenya\u2019s Deaflympics Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday handed over the national flag to the Kenyan team that will represent the country at this year\u2019s Summer Deaflympics in the Brazilian town of Caxias do Sul.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the ceremony at State House, Nairobi, President Kenyatta commended the team for proving that in Kenya \u201cdisability is not inability\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Head of State assured the team of maximum support from the Government as well as all Kenyans, expressing optimism that they will bring pride to the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as you proceed, proceed knowing that you have the full support of not only your Government but also your fellow brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be supporting you, we shall be cheering you all the way. We believe and trust that you will bring glory back to your country,\u201d President Kenyatta said.<\/p>\n

The President urged the team to be the country\u2019s ambassadors at the Deaflympics, saying they will not only be representing the disabled population but the whole country\u2019s population of 50 million Kenyans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will be out there as ambassadors of every single one of us and how you hold yourself by playing clean, how you uphold your dignity while you are out there and your discipline \u2013 all these will reflect not just on you but on your country,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the President said he was proud of the manner in which Kenya\u2019s sporting capability has developed, citing the international sporting events the country has hosted in the recent past including the IAAF Under-18 World Championships and the World Under-20 Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cKenya is moving forward. Our rugby teams have performed very well. Our teams at the Olympics \u2013 both the disabled category and the abled category \u2013 have brought glory to our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the Government is also working towards creating facilities that will continue nurturing the sporting talents in the country.<\/p>\n

Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed said through the Sports, Art and Social Development Fund, the sports teams that represent the country in regional and international competitions are now well catered for and adequately prepared to fly the national flag with pride and honour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team, which has been in camp since the 4th of April, has received adequate preparation and is ready to break the 2017 record of 17 medals,\u201d CS Amina said.<\/p>\n

Besides the usual training for the competitions, the Sports CS said the team has also undergone sensitization on anti-doping, regulations on mental health and media relations so as to enable them to represent the country well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are therefore very very confident, Your Excellency, of posting great results that will cement our place in the world chart as a hub for talent,\u201d the Sports CS said.<\/p>\n

Present were Head of Public Service Dr. Joseph Kinyua as well as Principal Secretaries Josephta Mukobe (Culture and Heritage) and Joe Okudo (Sports).<\/p>\n

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President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday handed over the national flag to the Kenyan team that will represent the country at this year\u2019s Summer Deaflympics in the Brazilian town of Caxias do Sul. Speaking during the ceremony at State House, Nairobi, President Kenyatta commended the team for proving that in Kenya \u201cdisability is not inability\u201d. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}