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    "id": 724260,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "We also want to see promotion of a responsible gambling industry. Gambling is an industry. There are casinos. There are people in this country who engage in serious business. There is nothing wrong with the sponsorship that the Hon. Member for Kikuyu was talking about. There are many companies that support different teams in the world. You can choose to support any. I am an ardent fan of the Manchester United Football Club. I wish I had Kshs1 billion. I would contribute some money when they want to buy a player. There is nothing wrong with that. This House dealt with a Bill called the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Bill. This House also dealt with anti-terrorism financing. This House dealt with the establishment of the Financial Reporting Centre. This House came up with a piece of legislation, as late as last week, that dealt with the establishment of an institution called the Asset Recovery Centre. Why do we do all this? As a country, we want to lock out dirty money circulating in our economy. One day, if I become the President, I will ban gambling. Right now, I do not have the power. I want to tell the governors in northern Kenya in Garissa, Wajir and Mandera that they must ban gambling. Ninety per cent of the people who live there are Muslims. We must prepare the 42 million Kenyans for heaven. We must prepare Kenyans on the route to heaven so that many of us avoid hell. By regulating gambling, we will reduce the number of those who will go to hell. This Bill has no other purpose. It just wants to regulate the betting industry. I am sure that all of us will propose amendments during the Committee of the whole House stage. I am sure if the industry is listening to me, it is good for them. Even the industry wants to play and engage in business where there is a legal framework. Nobody wants to do business where there are no laws. It is a very important thing. This Bill talks about preventing gambling using proceeds of crime and from being used in anti-money laundering activity. The Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare is here. I can tell you for free that when the Commissioner-General of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) appears before you on Tuesday, he has one mandate under this Act which is to collect money. The taxation regime he is going to propose in this Bill will be shocking. I am going to attend the meeting on Tuesday next week because there is a letter to that effect. He has written to the Clerk saying that he will come on Tuesday and he will say the amount of money he collects and if we help him regulate the industry, he will collect such an amount of money. That is what Mr. Njiraini is going to say. The money he is going to collect will reduce the budget deficit of one, Henry Rotich. Henry Rotich has a budget deficit of about Kshs700 billion in this financial year. If he can collect Kshs200 billion from this industry---"
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