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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": ". Somebody can easily topple our Government if you gave them that kind of money and you do not know what they are using it for. So, we want to know how much money is going through which hands and where it is going. We will be going to these companies. We want to know how many they are and where they are. We want this Committee to visit those places. We want the Committee to know how it works. We also want to know the involvement of the phone companies and the media. What is the media doing? About three days ago, I looked at a newspaper. It was talking about some football match of teams I have never heard of. That only proves that the interest in this thing is not sports but money. Our country cannot become a gambling nation as we watch. We cannot have a scenario where you are told that a school kid has committed suicide because they gambled their school fees away. We cannot have this scenario. It is not possible that people are told freely in the media that they can get rich quickly without working. This country must work. I know our founding father, Mzee Kenyatta abolished these things and allowed Charity Sweepstakes because the Government knew where the booths were and the pay-outs were known. I am now told in the estates somebody who is not regulated is having some booths where you can stick Kshs10 to Kshs100 with the hope that you are going to get payback or with the hope that your money is going to be multiply. Hon. Speaker, you know as much as we do and even seen Members of Parliament who are addicted to gambling. I have seen it in the other Parliament."
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