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    "id": 851255,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/851255/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "The Bill deals with a number of statutes. Let me start with the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act, Cap.131 which keeps coming back. In the Gaming, Lotteries and Gaming Act, the Bill proposed to amend it in order to revise the penalties which have been provided for in a number of sections of the Bill: Sections, 5(4), 8(3), 10(2), 11(4), 59(2) and 61 of that Act. Where I come from, betting and lotteries are forbidden; they are haram. Let me speak for the other Kenyans. The Member for Kiharu is seated here. We must talk the truth. If there is one single thing that is destroying the people of Kenya, whether in the rural areas or in the urban centres, it is betting. It is a moral question. We need to balance between the tax we receive and the destruction it does to the society. Those of us who profess the Islamic religion do not want you to do haram. There is very little difference between the Old Testament and the Quran. Those are the holy books of almighty God. Please, Members of Parliament, people are not going to farms, people are not going to shops to run their business and children are not going to school. They are betting for 24 hours. They gamble. On a starting point, let us increase and put heavy penalties as this law is asking us to do."
}