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    "id": 1348081,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1348081/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to talk about two basic critical principles. The first one is why we make laws. Second, is the necessity of governments. We make laws to guard against what we do not want to happen to us. That is normally the basic principle of why we make laws. Governments play a role in that and that is exactly why I was talking about the necessity of governments. They normally come in for purposes of controls and regulating society. We are in a situation where modern society is much faster than governments and this is why they must wake up. Modern society generates many new things much faster than the Government can respond. We struggled with the issue of cybercrime in the last Parliament. We came up with regulations when it was too late and too much harm had already been done to the society. We are currently dealing with the gambling menace. I remember when I first came to Nairobi as a university student, I heard about kupiga punda, but I did not know that it was a gambling game. It took me quite a while to understand what it was, but it had its own clientele of people who worked and had money. The game would give them a platform to spend their hard-earned money. There were also lotteries such as the Charity Sweepstakes, which had a real purpose of charity and not commercialism. We have now commercialised gambling in terms of lotteries. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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