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    "id": 740273,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/740273/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Chairlady, the HANSARD will bear me out. I was very careful in what I said. We must look at the context and history. Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo, Member for Gem, brought a Bill to this House on a comprehensive regulation of the betting sector. We have a Sports Bill which was brought by the former Minister, Ababu Namwamba, that is already in place and we have a betting industry that exists and regulations on how they should be taxed and the taxation levels that were set less than six months ago. The uproar with which the proposal by Hon. Midiwo was met, which was a comprehensive Bill and was rejected by this House and was withdrawn and put aside, was too much. The Committee that has full resources, support of the institution and backup of the technical advisory of Parliament proceeded within less than six months to propose a 50 per cent increase in conflict with what the CS was proposing at 35 per cent. I said, that to me, smells fishy because the same Committee proposed and last week, when we were here on Thursday, the Chair, the Vice-Chair and their Members were asked why they were withdrawing things that they were proposing. As I understand it, once the amendments are published, they are a property of the House. They were now our amendments and not the Committee’s. The Committee proceeds on the more significant and sensitive part of that debate to say, “withdraw and change from that 50 per cent provision and go back to the status quo .” What happened in between? I need an explanation that is convincing."
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