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    "id": 747152,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, you know the truth hurts. He lost miserably in the governorship and now he is an independent candidate. The point is that you need to come back to the House. Those of us who were here on Thursday, I have a letter written that once the 50 per cent taxation on betting--- The problem is that every time this House is discussing Betting and Lottery, there are too many things that happen. Since I am a Muslim and I am fasting and I do not do gambling, there are too many issues that come in. The issue was that we re-commit that clause. The Committee wanted to delete Clauses 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 on betting. The House led by Hon. Ichung’wah - and I do not know why today he is not very vocal - told the House that we must protect our children. He convinced the House. Hon. Fatuma was here. We rejected those clauses in a bi-partisan manner. Hon. Jakoyo was here. We agreed that let us protect the investor and the tax collector. We agreed to come to a proposal in which we can harmonise the taxation level. The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, through the Leader of Government Business, made his proposal which is 35 per cent and people can still reject. These are things we should debate when we come to the Committee of the whole House. The House can come back to the old issue, but the issue is that the Committee rejected the 50 per cent which was in the Bill. But when it came to the House last Thursday, the House disagreed with the deletion by the Committee. That is why, in a fair way, we did a re-committal."
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