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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "within our homes. There are a lot of women and men who are literally sinking the family unit because of gambling. Some children are being thrown out of schools because their parents have gambled the last coin. There are women are literally holding on to their last coin because their spouses have gambled everything. You are talking about the match tonight between Arsenal who? I am not a football--- Some people would rather say tonight, my family does not need to eat meat because with this Kshs250 I want to place a bet. In all fairness, this has nothing to do with controlling people and the decisions they make regarding what they want to do and everything they want to do. This has everything to do with the responsibility of us leaders in ensuring that our communities are not washed away by the ills of gambling. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had this conversation with the Sports Fund after I questioned them because they were fighting for Kshs16 billion to be maintained within the Fund. You know 3 per cent of the levies that are collected will go towards the gambling authority. That 3 per cent will cater for the administrative and logistics of running that authority. The remaining amount of money, if you go through the Bill, will be channeled to various places. Among them, the person that gets the lion's share is the Sports Fund, if we get that amendment passed. Then asked a question to Sports Fund: What is your mandate? Their mandate is to cater for sporting activities because it is an independent state agency, but above and beyond that, they have some level of responsibility to push the creative economy. There was a kind of discussion like, yes, you know our athletes. I said you are talking about athletes, what about the creative economy because you have a mandate within that institution to take care of singers, filmmakers and all these people in the creative economy? I could tell from even CS Ababu Namwamba's response that the creative economy was not really prioritized; it was more about football. I remember Sen. Crystal Asige being in that meeting saying it is very unfortunate that the misrepresentation of even the leadership in the various spaces is causing us to forget repeatedly about the creative economy and how we are going to conserve our cultural activities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know after the Bill is passed, regulations anchored to the Bill will be tabled. One of the regulations that I would want to see and which I am going to push for is that from that Kshs16 billion plus, 50 per cent of that money should be directed to the creative economy. It is not fair that everyday in and out, we are talking about football. When talking about sporting activities, you are still leaning towards one bias, which is football. I am happy that the Committee adopted the proposed amendment to ensure that the fund that was going to sports would still be maintained and go to the Sports Fund. The next step would be to ensure that the regulations that will be anchored to this Bill will push for 50 per cent of the Kshs16 billion to go to the creative economy and in that sense then, we will be able to have some preservation of our culture through this ill that we are choosing to legislate called gambling. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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