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    "id": 718678,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Francis Waititu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Petition by the taxi operators especially in big towns in our country like Kisumu, Nakuru, Mombasa and Nairobi. Kenyans who operate taxis have been experiencing a rough time. A good case is in Nairobi where most of the taxi operators took loans to buy taxis, but the competition is not fair as the Petition says. Owners of personal cars are now interfering with the operations of taxis. They do this by operating as taxi in the evenings. The security of this country has sometimes been affected by such people. In Nairobi, you hear that people have been hijacked in a taxi, but if you go to check at the county government offices, you find names of taxi operators. When taxi drivers were demonstrating in Nairobi and fighting for their rights, nobody listened to them. I pray that the National Assembly would take up this matter seriously. I visited Uganda where my two sons have been studying at Makerere University and what they call taxis are matatus, only that they have a blue line on them that shows that, indeed, they are matatus . In Kenya, you will not even differentiate between a personal vehicle and a taxi. Before, taxis used to have a yellow line on them and there was law and order in the City of Nairobi. Today, you cannot tell who is a taxi driver and who is not. The Petitioners need to be supported by Parliament. We need to instil law and order in this country. I wish to ask the county governments and the national Government to pull together so that we can make laws that will help our taxi drivers."
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