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    "id": 720126,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Were",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Aoko Were",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, this Bill was read the First Time the very week we were proceeding on recess and it was committed to our Committee. During that period, you issued instructions that no Committee should hold meetings until 23rd January 2017. Due to that, we could not hold any meeting to look at this Bill. We only resumed two weeks ago and the Committee has already met Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo, the author of the Bill, but we have not met other stakeholders, especially officers from the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government who were supposed to appear before us last week on Tuesday. They requested that they come this week on Thursday. Similarly, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the National Treasury were supposed to appear before us yesterday, but they are appearing before the Budget and Appropriations Committee and have requested to appear next week on Tuesday. So, Hon. Speaker, we have not moved a great deal in looking at this Bill and that is why I have stood to request that debate on this be moved forward to enable us look at this Bill critically. There is a lot of interest on this considering the number of memoranda that we have received. It is also a very emotive topic and I am requesting that you give us three more weeks, so that we can do justice to this Bill. Hon. Speaker, you also know that we might need to visit some countries of similar jurisdictions, so that we can know how they handle betting in their countries. So, I request that you allow us more time, so that we can do justice to this Bill and submit our report."
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