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    "id": 1348105,
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    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "with us in terms of attracting investment. I will be expecting the Committee to be telling us in their reply why they recommended a reduction and the scientific reasoning behind it. It is not about arithmetic and figures. It is not about 15 and 13 per cent. There must be some scientific thinking that informs us in terms of what we set. In my view, the tax that is going to be imposed on gambling firms must be one that prevents people from making it very easy for firms and individuals to participate in this. We must also set a taxation system that is very efficient so that immediately any person gambles, then the taxman or taxwoman, or our tax institutions receive their taxes promptly noting that many of the directors of these companies, as I had said earlier, may not be local. Therefore, this afternoon, I support the passage and enactment into law of the Gambling Control Bill so as to regulate the sector and create a responsible society, noting that a lot of the people who are gambling are young people. Like I said earlier, gambling is beginning to confuse our young people from doing that which is meaningful to them to engaging in the quick gains and promises that come with the monies that are often placed in gambling. As I finalise, it is also important that within this law, we regulate how marketing for gambling is done. You are aware that under the Tobacco Control Act, 2007, the law on tobacco control regulates how you do advertisements for cigarettes in this country, for example. That as you do advertisements for cigarettes, you also have to highlight that they are harmful to people’s health. They have even gone further to demonstrate through photographs so that somebody is aware how their lungs will look like when they buy that one packet of cigarettes and that there is a possibility that they are going to get sick. I propose that within the gambling law, the advertisement for gambling to not be done in a manner that makes it look cosy and nice. It must be required as part of this law, that as you advertise for gambling, you must also say the bad side of gambling so that from the beginning those gambling can make a choice between the monies they are likely to win and also the bad effects of gambling. For that reason, I beg to support."
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