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    "id": 740232,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "I am sorry. It has not been defeated. If Jakoyo Midiwo’s Bill is still a property of this House, it is one of the things that will regulate and give us the answers that we are now asking for. Secondly, it is very unfortunate that the Leader of the Majority Party has got some people who have refused some of the issues on matters of constitutionality, which is okay. At the same time, the Leader of the Majority Party had a good idea about betting. As a sportsman, in the sports industry we are the greatest beneficiaries of the betting companies who sponsor our two clubs - AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia. What Jakoyo Midiwo was also trying to do in his Bill is to tell the betting companies to look at the local clubs, local industry and the local usage. They should not just look at the overseas club like what they did by investing Kshs6 billion in Hull City, which they have already withdrawn and now moved to Everton, paying huge sums of money in the process. We were going to address most of those things. But as it is now, as Hon. Ababu Namwamba has just said, if we put it at 50 per cent we are killing the industry. Now we are torn in between. I support what the Vice-Chairman has just said that we support the deletion and then once Jakoyo’s Bill comes to the Floor of the House, it will regulate all those issues that we are talking about."
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