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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Those people are businessmen. My own cousin was recently announced a winner of a major rotary and he got Kshs.20 million after spending Kshs.50. He is now a millionaire, marrying aimlessly, eating a good diet and building many good houses. He paid taxes because the properties accruing from gambling are now taxable. So, those people are doing a legitimate business. There is also this element of enabling young boys and girls - school going children by involving them in this gambling business when they are under age. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. I believe we have delved into this business and we are perfecting the Bill better to make it workable. I am wondering why we also want to kill business and the economy of this country for people who are coming to pay taxes, so long as they are doing genuine business. There are a few of them who are not genuine, but we cannot blame them. We only need to bring proper mechanisms or make sure that anybody who is doing business in this country obtains the mandatory licences and goes through the correct procedure and must put his house and acts in order. My boss, the Leader of the Minority Party, has made a lot of noise and brouhaha over a few things that did not go right. Some of us who went to the University of Harvard, where people are taught how to be streetwise, I think there is more than meets the eye in this. This might not just be an opportunity where my political mentor, the Leader of the Majority Party, wants to laud CORD for waking up belatedly to present a very good Bill. We can construe something more than just the expression he made. I do not want to impute the wrong motive. I admire Hon. Duale and his abilities."
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