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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cystal Asige",
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    "content": "This is because if you look at reports, pieces of data or research, which I have, because I have interacted with this Bill before in our Committee, you will see that gambling follows quite specific vices in this country. Gambling is always targeted to vices such as abuse of alcohol and drugs. Gambling will target those who have vices around addiction of some kind. Of course, it also follows vices such as pornography, which nobody has spoken about here. I have not heard anyone speaking about the same. This is what gambling companies will always target, especially those who are online. They will target people who are into entertainment or sports. They will target those who are into drugs and alcohol, and those with any kind of addiction. Mental health as well has been spoken about here. They will target those who watch and enjoy porn. There are reports as well that we saw when we were looking into this Bill in our Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which showed that in Kenya, some of the highest usage of the internet lies in those very topics I have just mentioned. It is the top 10. In the top 10 are entertainment, sports, shopping, but in the top three is pornography. If we do not address these issues, the vices themselves, then we will never be able to control gambling. That is my fear. Recently, in the last few months in this House, as I said, we keep legislating things that are the symptoms and not the actual core root of an issue. Recently, we were trying to legislate around fundraising in churches and the like. There are Members in this House who actually said and opposed that Bill because they said, “how can you tax or try to regulate fundraising without looking at the reason Kenyans feel like fundraising is their only hope to get through their problems?” When somebody fundraises for a sick relative, we must not regulate the fundraising. We must ask, why does this person feel like the health system has failed them?"
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