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    "id": 1231108,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1231108/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorothy Muthoni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Motion that has been brought to the House by Hon. Mathenge, Member for Nyeri Town. It is good to note that this Motion is very timely because it speaks about banning media houses from running lotteries and prize money competitions. The media houses of today have lost their primary objective. I am saying this because in the late 1980s and 1970s, during lunch hour, we would mill around a radio set to listen to the latest news so that we could know what was happening across the country. Thereafter, the radio stations would play patriotic songs and give messages of hope to Kenyans. Today, every time is news time and more so, on the local stations. After every few sentences, there is an interlude of betting. This is something that runs as an advert where people are told to send Ksh50 to a till number and in return, they would get Ksh100,000 or whatever amount of money. In the background, you will hear somebody screaming, “I have got my Ksh100,000.” Even if a mama mboga is preparing to go and buy her children dinner and she has Ksh100 in her phone, she will take the Ksh100, remove Ksh50, bet and expect to win Ksh100,000, which may never be forthcoming. At the end of it all, children might end up sleeping hungry. According to the Communication Authority of Kenya(CAK), this country has nearly 200 radio stations comprising both vernacular and community stations that are mostly ethical. These messages are communicated in a language that mama mbogas or persons who do not understand any other language, will understand them. Instead of radio station hosts talking objectively about things that are happening in the country, they have become a recipe for making our families poor. Families have become poorer because people want to get rich quickly. Therefore, they are enticed to easy money. Betting has become an economic activity through which unscrupulous individuals in this"
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