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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Korei ole Lemein",
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        "legal_name": "Korei Ole Lemein",
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    "content": "establishment of the Gaming Authority. This Authority has a number of staff. It has members and a Director-General. It also addresses the issues of qualifications. Again, it contains provisions for the licences and permits which in the old Act has been a challenge. It also contains provisions on control and licensing of betting. This is a whole provision in the new Bill. It is lacking in the old Act. That is why you see in the entire country, whether somebody was young or old, it was affecting almost everyone. This particular provision will address the same. Again, it contains a provision on control and licensing of lotteries. The old Act does not even distinguish between a lottery and a betting company. It is very difficult in the old Act. This Bill has gone further and got the difference and tabulates between what is what. It contains the provision of online gaming. The old Act, which was passed in 1966, did not even imagine that there is what we call online gaming. The world is changing and technology is really moving very fast in the 21st Century. In that sense, the most challenging part to address is online gaming. This Bill proposes a number of issues that are also going to address the same. It also contains a provision for establishment of a national lottery. I might not address much on this because the Chairperson has addressed it. The various visits that the Committee made gave it an opportunity to compare notes with the rest of the advanced world on gaming. It also contains a provision on the conduct of a national lottery. If you look at what we have in the Act, it does not really give teeth to bite when there are issues that affect our people. There is also a provision for the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund which will address a number of issues. Let me address what we really got while we were doing public participation. When we visited the coast, western and eastern regions and almost every place we visited in this country while we were doing public participation, there was outcry from Kenyans. Gaming or betting has destroyed our children to an extent that they steal from their parents and instead of going to school, they go betting and just come back in the evening. Even on the so called family values, we also realised that it went to an extent of harming the family. A man can get out of a home and instead of going to do a job or struggle for his family, he goes for betting. The unique part we learnt in the coast is that it went to a situation where a man can steal the wife’s clothing to sell in the market just for him to get a few coins to be able to bet. This is a very unique thing. I really thank this Committee because of the kind of recommendation it has put in place. I also had an opportunity to visit one of the most advanced states on matters gaming. In Nevada, gaming contributes to almost 70 per cent of the GDP. What we learnt is they have professionalised gaming to an extent that they even have a university that has a department that manufactures gaming machines. They are able to look at and inspect these machines on a yearly basis. So, if somebody tries to tamper with the same, an inspection team is sent to inspect the entire machines all over the state. That is a very good observation. Here we put gaming machines everywhere. We found out that they are put in specific areas and you can only walk there if you are going to play. These are some of the issues that we realised that, as a country, we really need to look at. Therefore, there are a number of amendments that are contained in our Report that we laid on the Table of this House on 14th of this month. We have a number of them that we felt if adopted by this House, this Bill is going to be enriched further to be a Bill that is going to, one,"
}