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    "id": 721893,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "unemployed, how many jobs have been created and, how many people are still looking for jobs? By creating that, I think it will help a lot. It will even help the Government of the day to know its progress in terms of unemployment. It will help the country to know how many people are out there and which fields need people. When it comes to the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act, this amendment has come at the right time. When you look at what Jakoyo was bringing, it was not going to help fight the menace that we see out there. We already know the problem that people are facing in betting. It is already illegal. We cannot legalize an already illegal process. Betting with machines that are affecting our children is already illegal. Nobody is allowed, without a licence, to put a betting machine in their shops or anywhere in public. So, this one will really help solve the issue of betting more than what Jakoyo Midiwo was trying to do. He was trying to kill the whole sector. If you increase taxes for the betting companies; if you increase all those things, you are going to kill a sector that has helped so much. As much as we think that betting has created something, it is a social event. You cannot force somebody to bet or not. It is a social event. I know there are many churches that are against betting. I am not for betting but, if a church is against betting, teach your Christians not to bet. If a school is against betting, teach your children not to bet. If you, as a dad, is against betting, teach your children not to bet. But we should not kill a whole sector or institution that is employing people. We should not kill a whole institution that is helping sports in this country. Sporting in this country has become what it is now because of some sponsorship from betting companies. By bringing this under these amendments to even make it illegal for those betting machines to be in public, to increase the charges and to increase penalties for using those machines that are killing our kids on the streets, it will help solve the issue of betting. With those few remarks, I support this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill. But I am asking the House and Members of this House to consider my request to remove that part that says we are going to add extra levies to dairy farmers and to allow county governments to charge dairy farmers extra cess. I ask Members of Parliament to, please, remove this part because it is going to destroy our already struggling dairy farmers. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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