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    "id": 686707,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Sporting activities in the world today are heavily dependent on money coming out of lottery and betting. If you go to the UK today, the kind of revenue generated through betting and lotteries, which is then reinvested in sports sponsorship, is mind boggling. They are incredible amounts of money. It is one of the reasons why the English Premier League today is the best funded league. It is the most exciting league and has a lot to do with money. Of course, part of the money comes from television rights but, a lot of it comes from lotteries and gaming. Placing a bet in relation to the English Premier League has become almost a tradition for overnight millionaires. Those who followed the drama of the 2015/2016 season would know for instance the chances for the current champions, Leicester winning the League, were 5000/1. Those were the odds. One character was crazy enough to place a bet on those odds. He walked away with quite a tidy sum when that club did the improbable and won the English Premier League. We are talking about something which has already taken root in a number of economies, and which drives the sporting sector and other sectors of the economy. It is important that as we move towards exploitation of that potential, we put in place sufficient laws and legislation to manage that arena. While discussing the letter and the spirit of our Constitution in 2010, we spent quite a bit of time providing a constitutional framework for this area of the economy. We placed the responsibility over lotteries and betting with the county governments. The National Assembly still retains the responsibility to provide overarching legislation to govern this area. We need to regulate this arena so that it can be formalised, run within determinate rules and become a source of economic growth and not a drain on the economy. It will become a drain on the economy if we allow the trend that is taking root where young people, including pupils and students in schools such as the ones I see packed in our public galleries, stop focusing on education and go into gambling and betting as a pass-time. We have heard cases of school pupils and students The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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