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    "id": 724228,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/724228/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
        "slug": "jakoyo-midiwo"
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    "content": "“An online gambling transaction commences when a player’s account is debited in the amount of a bet and concludes when the player’s account is credited with the amount of winnings in the case of a winning bet or when a player loses the game.” That is the definition. I have defined a player’s account. A player’s account is the account which by law we will establish to know who is gambling. If it is Hon. J.B. Muturi, the Speaker, gambling, we will get you by law just like we do with M-PESA accounts. So, it will be known that Hon. Speaker is betting, he is betting this much and the State has access to that information. If you win, Uncle Sam must get his share. If you win Kshs1 million, for example, the State must charge you 30 per cent. Right now, nobody knows because your records are not divulged to the State. We have put that in law and that is beautiful. We complain about the free flow of money to Al Shabaab, in and out and money laundering. How is it that the State will not be interested in that and that the Cabinet Secretary would want this thing to be delayed? Who does not want to know who is gambling and where they live? That is how good states are organised. That is how good parliaments organise their states. If a player in an online gambling transaction wins a non-monetary prize, the licensee shall have the prize personally delivered to the player. “Personally” because you could be in Wajir and you have won with a betting company in Nairobi and they want you to figure out how that prize gets to you. We are saying that it shall be their responsibility to get that non-monetary prize that you have won. They shall also notify the player in writing of the address within the Republic where the prize may be collected if the player so wishes. Hon. Speaker, if a non-monetary prize has not been collected within a year after the winner has been notified of the place where it may be collected, a licensee may dispose of the price by a public auction or may be approved by the authority and pay the cost of the disposal. They can then collect some of that money and use it to defray the cost of the auction and give the original winner the amount. Hon. Speaker, I am proposing that a person engaging in online activity shall gamble an amount not more than Kshs200 per competition. I am saying that because we have scenarios where adverts of imaginary expectations are created. There are cases where school kids have gambled up to Kshs40,000 to Kshs50,000 of their school fees. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sportpesa told me the average bet is just Kshs200. So, under what circumstances did the Kenyatta University student who committed suicide gamble his Kshs40,000? We want to make sure that a person shall not be licensed to offer online gambling by the authority unless the person is a body corporate fully owned by Kenyan citizens. In the 21st Century, there is a new phenomenon by a very rogue person called President Donald Trump. He is deporting people, including those who own green cards. In Kenya, all you have to do is come through our airports and you get married. Here they just get a Kenyan man to marry and hence they end up becoming citizens. They know that in Kenya they are safe and can make a Kshs1 billion a day. President Trump of United States of America (USA) has said no to such in America, then who are we to agree? Let us protect our country and citizens. We have a responsibility to protect our people so that not everyone who comes here and assumes naturalisation can milk us. They do not want to play by our rules. How can somebody who holds a work permit collect more money than Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)? I hear that you get this permit around Nyayo House by laughing with these people. I hear a mere Kshs50,000 can get you one through the backdoor and tomorrow you are already exporting our money. Even if you were naturalised, we do not want that. We want Kenyan money to be held by Kenyans born 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."
}