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    "id": 1348121,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1348121/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": "Are there any lessons learnt from the sin tax that is imposed and has brought about the Sports Fund? The Sports Fund has for years received money from sin tax yet when we walk around this country, we do not see the impact of these resources. Sports cannot be justified as a way of allowing gambling. Sports is an industry that should be supported to allow talented and gifted men and women in this country to exploit their sports prowess to earn the top bucks that other sportsmen and sportswomen are achieving. We cannot justify the building of sports stadiums to allow unregulated gambling. I believe we must provide an explicit exclusion for the poorest of the poor in this country not to be enticed into gambling which is practically a game for those who have the means and the wherewithal to gamble. We have seen even those who have had those kinds of riches in the past reduced to destitutes through gambling. Lastly, in controlling gambling and the industry, this Bill ought to link the presence and the use of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) PIN. How can somebody unable to pay tax afford to gamble? I will be moving key amendments to this Bill to ensure that I am protecting Kenyans who should not be lured into gambling."
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