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    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": "have gone through it very carefully. With new innovations in ICT, we risk losing the very productive part of the community by people engaging in gambling for very long hours. This Gambling Bill has come to replace many legislations that have been there. It will also make the judicial services easier because we will have clear references. Instead of referring to very many laws, we shall refer to sections within one law. It is important that we have it at this point in time. The Regulatory Authority will definitely have a lot of work to do. It is important that we appeal to the Regulatory Authority to follow up activities of gambling even the adversarial activities of gambling. They should tax them so that we get more money because there is a lot of gambling within the media. I admire the Committee’s proposals of absolute figures on what is proposed as taxes in the Schedules. But absolute figures do not allow flexibility so it will be important that we translate these absolute figures to some proportions or percentages. That will help us, probably, to look at changing scenarios and circumstances and therefore adjust accordingly. It is important for us to create a responsible gambling industry and therefore, the legislation is key in basically removing irregularities that are there and putting in place best practices that are more organised, regulated and systematic. Let us put in place standards so that, at least, as a country, we engage in something we are sure of and we can control and something we can advise on in terms of growth and development. I would also like to admire the fact that the money is proposed to be used a lot more to rehabilitate those who have been through the process. Well, it is sin money and people would have suffered and probably lost their bearing. Therefore, such people need to be rehabilitated. It is wise to use the money to rehabilitate them back to normalcy. I recognise what one of the Members said about a policy that was passed in 2022 and which regulates the act of gambling. The policy needs a legislative back up so that it can be implemented effectively. It is not very good having many segmented legislations implementing one policy. That leads to lack of clarity and therefore it becomes impotent."
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