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"speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"content": "Even in Christianity it is outlawed but people still gamble because they are idle. It is said that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. We have many idle minds. So, they have nothing to do and when people are over idle, there are things that they will get involved in some of which I will not mention here but the other one is gambling. I will not mention the others which will cause the population to increase. Gambling is something that people are engaged in because they have no alternatives. Yes, as much as I encourage that we can increase the tax on gambling, we must deal with the underlying issue which is unemployment. I laud the amendments that encourage people to own homes, especially first home owners though sometimes some of these things are almost ridiculous. As much as we are allowing many people to own homes, how many Kenyans are able to own these homes? I know there are many of us here who are resisting lifestyle audits. You know Parliament and politics is a very interesting thing. Only four months or so ago, we were the resistors. I was a master resistor: “We shall resist.” We were all in the streets resisting. Now there are others who are resisting in the House and outside. Why? It is because of lifestyle audit. We are now speaking rhetoric here about; “Oh, do not look at my salary alone, I am doing business.” Even if you are doing business, let us look at your age, your salary, that business and whether you are involved in business of performing miracles. Unless you are in business of performing miracles, the kind of wealth that people are making in this country is crazy. Some of us are sitting here morning to evening trying to earn an honest living and then suddenly you see somebody’s house has sprouted from nowhere. Unfortunately, because we are so poor as a country, this is who Kenyans are following. They follow you because you can dish out money because people are desperately poor. So, we end up having people who come into this House to protect ill-gotten wealth. I totally and fully support lifestyle audit. Personally, I am able, ready and willing for a lifestyle audit. The only thing I am worried about for myself is, maybe, I will belong to another category of the very poor ones which again the country does not like. We do not like very poor people but we love extremely rich people even when we do not know where their wealth is coming from. Let us not be shy. It does not matter whether you have done a thousand businesses. Let us know how you can do business in sugar and out of the business in sugar for one year, you can build 40 hotels and buy a chopper. I would want to be involved in that business. I think it will help the people of Suba and the classrooms that we are not able to build and the health facilities that are in a pathetic situation if you can be doing such kind of business that some of us are involved in. The proposed amendments are aimed at inspiring economic growth and to support the Big Four Agenda. I agree with the Hon. Member for Naivasha who indicated that unless we deal with the issue of corruption, we are not anytime soon going to spur economic growth and neither will we realise the Big Four Agenda. If you do not know, the Big Four Agenda very soon will be Agenda 1 - How do I steal? Agenda 2 - How do I steal much more? Agenda 3 - How do I steal much much more? Agenda 4 - How do I excel in stealing? That has become the chorus in this country. No wonder this little boy was asked on television what Kenya’s legacy to the world is. We are bequeathing corruption to the world. I am told that Members of Parliament from Zambia came to learn about corruption in Kenya. They just did not say how to be corrupt."
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