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    "id": 740249,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Ibrahim Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. I stand to oppose this amendment. Hon. Ababu said that the betting industry is a growing segment of our economy and that we need gambling and betting laws. We are misleading this country as legislators. We need to have a deterrent law that disallows some of those bad practices. I said earlier that there are many gamblers who want to destroy this society. I am happy that there are no major betting and gambling shops in Wajir. But if we encourage this kind of law that we will only give a penalty of taxation, it will consume our children, families and destroy our society in terms of engaging in this very unproductive and bad habit. As a country, we can be the pacesetter by having a very deterrent high taxation to discourage the many Kenyan children, youth and some Members of this House who have lost their resources in gambling and might be paupers in terms of their resource base."
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