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    "id": 1350178,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " I beg to move that the National Lottery Bill (National Assembly Bill No.69 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. Allow me to thank the Chairman who is Hon. Dan Wanyama, the Vice-Chairman, who is Hon. Githua Wamacukuru, all the Members of the Departmental Committee on Sports Committee, including my very able Whip of the Majority Party, Hon. Naomi Waqo. As we negotiated the last bit of the National Dialogue Committee, all these Members were holed up somewhere in Mlolongo throughout the weekend until yesterday evening when they concluded the Report on both Bills that Hon. Githua Wamacukuru tabled this afternoon. This Bill forms part of the array Kenya Kwanza is implementing to curb the ongoing vice of irresponsible gambling and betting, and the economic challenges that result from this. Gambling is increasingly recognised and managed as a legitimate consumer activity. If well leveraged, gambling can support national development. Many countries have taken betting and gambling as part of the measures to support their national development and other charitable activities. This is a situation to leverage what would otherwise have been a vice. We should make it gainful to the country’s economy and the population. The United Kingdom, the Republic of South Africa here in Africa, the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China, and our neighbours Uganda and Tanzania are taking advantage of this habit of gambling and betting to leverage and make money for their countries and provide certain social goods. This is the essence of this Bill. The Bill proposes to establish the first-ever national Government lottery in Kenya. It will be licensed as an instrument for providing a legal and regulated form of gambling that pulls resources for promoting good causes. Members will see the good causes enumerated in the Bill if they peruse through. Part III of the Bill says that a national lottery shall be conducted to raise resources for the nation towards good causes in Kenya and for any other purposes provided for in this Act. Charitable causes such as facilitating the protection and rehabilitation of vulnerable of problem gamblers are some of the good causes listed. It is true that there are 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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