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"speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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"content": "I support this Bill so that we bring some order to the gambling sector. I still think that there must be other creative ways in which activities that are related to gambling in one form or another can be legalised. There must be a soft way in which we can get to the middle ground. I remember that when we debated this Bill over the past years, there were always exceedingly high emotions. The actual case is lost because either people are supporting it too passionately for healthy living or opposing it too stringently. Solutions do not lie at the extremes. Not on anything in this country. Solutions only lie towards the middle. I hope we can continue to search for the middle ground so that we find other ways in which we can increase incomes and truly supplement the public sector efforts to provide services. In this country, getting public support services is extremely difficult, more so for people who live a distance away from the big cities. Fortunately, we have very effective technology penetration so we hope we can allow some soft landing where people can use their little income both for amusement and income earnings. Since we know most of the proceeds accrue to the managers and providers, what has been managed and provided will go out there. If I was in Nambale, it would help to build my schools. They are all full. Fertility levels are quite healthy and we have excess students almost across the entire learning spectrum. It will help to provide lunch for the very needy. It will help to provide some boarding schools which have become rescue centres for youth, particularly the girl-child but also for others in terms of the social pressures and the challenges they get. It is also a rescue in terms of providing steady meals for them and reducing the burden on their parents at home. There are many ways in which what we consider to be undesirable should also be weighed in terms of what can be done positively within society. Much as we have a Bill that many people have praised for what it will restrict, we should think about what will not be doable in this."
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