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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "within seven days, bring proposals on how we want it done to the House. We should know who is licensing these people. I have seen in the media somebody purporting to give regulations. You give regulations on how people repatriate money out of our country? It is not a very small matter. You have seen even the media have gambling numbers. Who is giving them those numbers? Who is permitting people to gamble their property and lives away? In our constituencies, and many Members know it, if you go to a town or a village, you find people gathered somewhere on sports days very busy with their phones. They are doing something which is unregulated. Lastly, you know how cases of burning of schools began. What ignited fire at Itierio Boys High School was that the head teacher refused to let the students watch the Euro League. This is not because they love soccer, but because they wanted to watch their money grow or disappear. I plead with the Leader of the Majority Party to buy my idea if he feels as I do. If we let this trend go on for a long time, we shall not have a tax system for our people. A situation where money can virtually be repatriated to banks abroad is not good. Do you know why gambling is so much in Kenya and not in our neighbouring countries? Hon. Speaker, it is for the same reason that even Ugandans, who do not really grow much sugarcane, export sugar to Kenya. We are a working economy. What is here is not in our neighbours. Those are poor countries. This country is good, but it is mismanaged. Let us help this country to be managed properly. Let us help the situation. For purposes of quickness and cohesion, let him choose the people he wants, a number of five to nine, an odd number, and give them seven days to do this. It is critical and urgent, but we shall have saved our country from this nonsense."
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