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    "id": 1348132,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "Controlling gambling can be very difficult. It has two or three stages. I will be very fast. The first stage is you go in and win. This is the winning phase. Secondly, you are given the losing phase. They take you quickly to the desperate phase. Finally, they take you to the hopeless phase. It is controlled by owners of the gambling game very keenly. Why do we have addicts of gambling? There is a usually a body hormone that is released when you win called dopamine which makes you feel very good. The owners of the gambling game know very well that once you win, dopamine is already in your body and you will always crave to feel the same way you felt the first time. The laws of utility demand that once you have consumed once or twice, it is very difficult to get to the peak. Therefore, you will have to gamble a thousand times to have the same feeling you had when you won. There is also a cardinal rule about gambling that you should never gamble with money that you cannot afford. Unfortunately, most of the gamblers break this rule and do it with money that they cannot afford. That is why they go to where they end up to. This Bill is good because eradicating gambling completely in this country is difficult. It is online and the owners of the gambling machines and games can do it offshore and still access our people. Moving forward, we need to make a tough threshold for those who want to gamble. For instance, 15 per cent taxation is still very low. Take it to about 60 or 70 per cent, so that it is not easy for one to be licensed to gamble. Partly why you can see our economy performing badly is because the companies that gamble in this country take money out of here. We need to take care of that. Even as I support this Bill, I will bring amendments. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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