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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I draw reference to something you said yesterday regarding Members’ participation during the Second Reading. Consequently, when we come to the Third Reading, all the things that we put forward during the Second Reading are not put into action in terms of amendments. I heard what was said by the Chairman of the Committee and Hon. Wamunyinyi, and it is true. I want to support what Hon. Wamunyinyi said that legislation is not a one-day event. It is not that when we start the Second Reading today, this process will come to an end today. There is nothing that stops the Committee from listening to people even as the Second Reading continues. You could bring everything that you have collected from stakeholders in the form of amendments during the Third Reading. The Leader of the Minority Party has just said he smelt a rat. I do not know where the rat is. The rat could also be in these attempts to delay debate. If there is a rat being smelt, the Leader of the Minority Party must smell it in the attempts to derail debate. It is not just about derailing debate during the Second Reading, rather, it is probably to derail the whole Bill. Hon. Gichigi, the Member for Kipipiri, has asked about the urgency of the Bill. Indeed, there is urgency. There is urgency because we have seen very young productive Kenyans killing themselves in our campuses after squandering their money through these betting companies. Everything has got its own merits and demerits. The betting business has its merits and demerits. As legislators, we cannot be curtailed from doing our work in legislation and representing those innocent young people in this country who are suffering because of some of these betting companies. We are not saying that we need to outlaw betting in this country. We are only saying that we want to debate and look at the merits and demerits of betting and its participation in our national economy. We must begin to ask ourselves the hard question: How much taxation is being paid? On this Floor last year, we added some 7 per cent levy, but there is still a lot of money that is being laundered out of this country without taxes being paid."
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