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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "concluded but the businessmen and women involved have been upset by one thing or another in the past. Therefore, it is good to regulate this and to make sure that we have a law which luckily has been compared very well with other jurisdictions like the UK experience and the Las Vegas experience in the Nevada State. This is where a lot of it happens and they have very good controls from the American Government. There are also regulations. I have also seen that it has a clause for regulations. So, the CS in charge will again approach the Committee on Delegated Legislation so that we can make regulations to implement this particular Act. Those are some of the positive things. Financing sports in this country has really been a challenge. We do not want to see scenarios whereby athletes are stuck. You know the Government facilitates to a certain extent but with the Gaming Act and the national lottery, although we made some amendments in the Finance Act whereby monies raised in this manner generally will also be shared to another fields... We want to be specific in this particular Act that all monies raised through gaming, unless there are excesses, must be used for development of sports in this country. If we do that, we will employ a lot of young people in sports in Kenya and Kenya has a potential of winning the Olympics. We have gone even up to number three in the world. I believe with proper financing, we will be able to increase the fields in which we can participate internationally and bag many more gold medals and honour will come to this country. This will be courtesy of this new law when will allow proper financing of sports activities in the country. This is because financing sports is very expensive and the ministry has been getting some challenges. The moment we now finance our football through monies raised in this way, I am sure we will be in the World Cup and we can win the World Cup. If we finance athletics and all manner of sports, we will have a healthy nation and then we will also employ a lot of young people who have a big talent but they do not exploit it because they also want to earn a living. A lot of talented sports people in Kenya will wish to earn a living through sports and this can be cured by making sure we have a proper national lottery which supports the sporting activities in the country. It has come out very well in this particular Bill. Therefore, this is a very important Bill for this country and I am happy Members have taken it very seriously. I believe we are going to pass this Bill and all matters which needed to be done while preparing this Bill were done, especially public participation, so that the people who are involved in this business properly participate. They still have an opportunity through their Members of Parliament when we will be doing the Committee Stage. They can approach Members of Parliament to make amendments. Also the other stakeholders like the church and the State are also free to make amendments to whatever we are debating now or if those people who are perusing this Bill find it that we have a missing gap somewhere. I believe this is good for the nation. I beg to support. I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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