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    "id": 1348038,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1348038/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": "We have had lapses in enforcement mechanisms so as to curb illegal gambling and ensure effectiveness of self-exclusion measures. This is where a person acknowledges that he is an addict or close family members record that he is addicted to gambling and we put him in a programme to be excluded from going into casinos and other places. We also require strong enforcement to do public awareness campaigns, promote responsible gambling behaviour and protect the young, vulnerable and other members of society. Consequently, we are appealing to the Ministry of Interior and National Administration, which will be responsible for this Act, to take these measures very seriously so as to protect the public. There is still a bit of work that needs to be done on new areas that we were unable to deal with. I hope the Government will see it fit to find ways of working on them. One is prohibition of credit facilities for gamblers. There are people who go to fuliza, borrow money and quickly M-Pesa it to a gambling pay bill. In our view, there is a scope for regulation in that area so that those who are dealing with online lending can be restrained from allowing transfer of money from their facilities to well-known gambling pay bills. We also want to impose restrictions on other activities, but we also call upon competition for licenses. In other jurisdictions, you do not just walk in, apply and pay a million shillings. Licences for gambling are actually advertised and people compete so that the Government can raise additional revenue. There will be need to do some more work on that; licenses should be competed for. It will be like what we did for Safaricom, Airtel and the rest of the mobile phone service providers. On the gambling prediction apps, we need to do some additional work and restrict them."
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