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"content": "We are gambling with elections. We are gambling our relationships. I want to agree that we must regulate these media promotions. It should be parental guidance rated. It should be put at the watershed period, so that we do not need the NCCK or the Kenya Episcopal Conference of Catholic Bishops or the evangelical, traditional or the Islamic religions to come out and tell us to legislate on issues that can be done morally. We do not want to create a society - an aspect of capitalism. You know capitalism does not have a soul and a heart. Therefore, I agree that we must regulate. I am told that these promotions that you do in the media, you can imagine one million Kenyans sending Kshs100 each and they end up giving out only a gift of Kshs500,000. They are making a lot of money. Number 31, I agree that the period of validity of license fee increases from 12 to 36 months. This one will give opportunity. I agree that let us increase from 12 months this issue of operation license of gambling. It should be increased from 12 months to 36 months, so that it can allow ease of doing business, convenience and reliability. Therefore, this issue of 12 to 36 months is very critical, so that it becomes predictable. I was talking to some businessmen and women. It is becoming a problem visiting county offices. When you go to county offices, you are being told; can you come behind the tent? It is inconveniencing to start a business in this country. I appeal to Government agencies. It is difficult to start a business in this country. By the time you get even one license, if you have never gotten a heart attack, you get diabetes or hypertension. This is because we have created a very tedious process of acquiring licenses, including those from the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and other relevant agencies, such as public health. Why can we not create a single portal where, when you want to apply for a license, you can obtain only one license? If today you want to cut a tree in Nairobi, the agencies that you will go through are more than the process of going to Heaven. It is so tedious and unfortunate. Therefore, by the time you get your license, if you are not sick, you are bankrupt. I agree that there should be predictability and the gambling license should be increased from 12 months to 36 months. On the issue of lottery tax at the rate of 15 per cent, as I indicated, the gambling issue, we should be very careful as a country. In fact, I request the Committee on Trade and the Committee on ICT to do an audit of the gambling that we have. You are being told, you can win a goat, car, Kshs100,000 or a trip to Diani. They are just playing with the imagination of Kenyans and making more money. I am daring you today, I can see the Chairperson of the Committee on Trade, Sen. Issa Juma Boy. Just take one media company or an advert. One million Kenyans, including our old men and women, spend Kshs100 each in the village, and they only give a reward of Kshs500,000 or even Kshs20,000. Those guys are making devilish and satanic profits at the expense of Kenyans. Some people are going without food because they are gambling. I know the football season is over, but I appeal to many young people or has it begun? Yes, it is coming in August. I agree that we need to introduce the lottery tax of 15 per cent as a 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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