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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, could you kindly protect me."
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"content": " Sen. Cherarkey, allow Sen. Sigei to make his submissions. You are distracting him."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for that protection. I was saying that we desire this mediated version of the Bill to ensure that we strengthen the penalties that are going to be meted upon those who, for instance, participate or are involved in gambling without the license. For example, in the mediated version of the Bill, we have enhanced the penalty as fines that can be imposed to over Kshs3 million and Kshs5 million, which is an improvement from what previously existed. This is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "because without any fine or penalty, no one will see any reason to be deterred from conducting activities like gambling without a license. Earlier on, I wanted to inform Sen. Cherarkey, as I take the opportunity to correct the misrepresentation, that the amount that one can bet on, is not one Shilling. In fact, the Committee enhanced the amount to Kshs20 as a means of ensuring that whoever participates in gambling must be someone who is obviously of age. If you reduce it to one Shilling, every other person, including young children, can access that amount and gamble with it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the timelines that the Bill provides for advertisements by the media houses, the watershed moment is between 10.00 p.m. and 5.00 a.m. That serves the purpose that Sen. Cherarkey and the rest of my colleagues said, that we regulate because if we do not do it, it will still go on. We are living in a global society such that, although we would want to discourage as much as possible our young ones because of the mental effects of gambling and the consequences that comes with it, we cannot run away from the fact that this is a global thing that other regimes have attempted to regulate, but have not been able to. This is an opportunity that we have gotten. Although we have not got the right situation in terms of regulations as Members would have desired, this is an attempt that, going forward, we have enacted a law that will give us a platform to continuously improve that law. This is so that, at the end of the day, we will be able to speak to a regulated activity, which will enhance the support we are talking about. It will also discourage Kenyans and everyone else from undertaking such vices. However, for those who have already been put into this, not necessarily residents within Kenya, but those outside the country, are online but are Kenyans, we must also speak to them and support them in a manner that this law is trying to do. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are legislating for posterity. We are not legislating merely because we have to do so; such that, even if we are not supporting gambling, there must be a law in place. That is exactly what we are saying, that notwithstanding our differences and challenges with this activity, we must have a law in place. As I reply, I urge the hon. Members of this House to support it. For those improvements that we have talked about that we need to make, we have a room to amend the law and in the process of amending the law, we can also go beyond the law and create an environment that will help Kenyans. That is, the ones gambling, those who have been addicted and those who have been affected by gambling activities in order to get an understanding of how they can exit the vice. Rather than saying we do not want the law and yet, gambling exists, it cuts across and it cannot be ignored."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I encourage Members to support. I also support this Bill. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.66(3), I request that we defer the putting of the question to a later date."
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"content": "I thank you."
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"content": " Thank you, Senator. Putting of the Question has been deferred."
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "(Putting of the Question on the Motion deferred)"
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"content": "Hon. Senators, looking at the Order Paper, we will have to defer Order Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17."
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