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    "id": 677279,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "change. It is billions. While this company is perfectly in order to market its brand in the English Premier League and across Europe, one wonders what really should be the priority. As we passed the Sports Bill in this House, the idea was to support local sports. It is a shame to see a business firm domiciled in Kenya spending billions sponsoring English football clubs while the Kenyan Premier League and football clubs like Gor Mahia, AFC Leopards, and other communities clubs are barely surviving on little resources available to them. It runs contrary to the spirit behind the very good intentions of sports betting as provided for in the Sports Act. Therefore, we must use this opportunity to put in place stringent measures that can answer to this mischief and addiction. In that respect, we must place an age limit and protect our children from betting. It will be perfectly in order to declare in a piece of legislation such as this that anybody below the age of 18 should not be allowed to engage in sports betting. Hon. Speaker, even movies have parental guidance provisions or guidelines, where it is said children or persons below certain age are not allowed to access or to watch such movies. Therefore, we will be perfectly in order to amend the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act. I said previously that when we sit in this Chamber, we are Hammurabi, the law giver. We can make, unmake and remake any law. It is perfectly in order for this House to relook at the betting law, and use this opportunity to answer the mischief which is arising out of it."
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