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    "id": 686678,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am told that either the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade or the Departmental Committee on Labour summoned the regulator and he refused to appear before Parliament which has powers of the High Court. If he continues to refuse to appear to listen to what we want, we will arrest him. We have the powers to arrest him because he is a criminal. His activities lead to criminal activities. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Betting and Control Board is in hotels selling licences which are illegal. We will arrest him. We would like to know under what circumstances he is allowing export of money in this country. Somebody is busy exporting money and we are busy going to China every month to borrow money. We cannot allow that. That would not be a Government willing to improve the lives of its people. We want to talk to them starting with the regulator. We want to hear his thinking and imaginations, so that when we bring a law here, it is not a law to hurt anybody or the economy but to help the economy and to ensure that our 10, 12, 15 and 18 year old kids do not live in betting dens. We must do that. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am certain we shall do it."
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