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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "It would be fair if the Member read the Motion that there is insufficient regulatory and institutional framework. He is a very good MP and is always here. The Bill we stood down came to this House in 2014. If anybody is to cast aspersions, the Committee where this Bill went should be the one receiving the aspersions. I am trying to do something that a Parliamentary Committee has been defeated to do since 2015. Kenyans are committing suicide and students are gambling their monies. I plead with you to guide debate so that it must be about insufficient regulatory and institutional framework. If he knows of an existing framework, he needs to tell the House that we are debating something which is in existence. What is going on and looking at the messages that are coming in is that we may have conspired. We did not even ask Members to give us their names. Right is right and wrong is wrong. If they do not want it, they should defeat the Motion because it is not about my children, but the children of Kenya. Article 95 of the Constitution requires us to deal with this issue. It is good to inform the nation that there was a Bill attempting to do this since 2015. What you are seeing is concerted lobbying. Some Members have called me since yesterday, saying that they must be here. That means they are seeing something we are not. Why do some Members think they are better than others? What is wrong with Hon. Duale being a Member of a Select Committee? He is a member of this House. Let us debate the substance of the Bill. This gambling thing is not small. The amount of money being laundered is too much, unless somebody is not following it. It is good to oppose but Motions are about substance. This is something which I have researched. You do not rubbish me and cast aspersions on my person. It is not fair. That is not right. Hon. Speaker, I plead with you."
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