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"content": "riders. They even bully people, including us, when we are campaigning. I was once bullied and prevented from entering a town until I paid Ksh20,000. There is significant bullying, even directed at Members of Parliament. While campaigning, they can block your entry into certain towns. Many operate like cartels, expecting payment before allowing us to campaign in specific areas. As a result, one might arrive late to the rallies because they are stuck arguing with people who refuse to listen. Hence, it is essential that we regulate that sub-sector. We need to communicate to them that we are a lawful country. We abide by the laws, and not everything is acceptable. One Member has mentioned that when you are driving, bodabodas often appear out of nowhere. Sometimes, you may not anticipate that someone is riding towards you in your lane, leading to potential collisions that could endanger them and their passengers. As a House, we need to do what is right, which we can achieve by creating laws that benefit our country. I have also seen some organised bodaboda groups who obey their chairpersons and secretariats. Those ones, you can sit and plan a rally with them so that they alert people about your coming. They are effective in organising and drawing crowds. However, if you do not pay them for their assistance, they might not allow you to address the audience next time. Therefore, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support bringing this Bill back after the Committee has reviewed it so that we can create laws to govern the sub-sector and instil discipline in our country. I have visited China, where there are thousands of bodaboda riders who are disciplined and move in sync with traffic. They stop when it is time to stop and move in an organised fashion when it is time to go. That is where the motorcycles are manufactured. But here, where we import them, we are unable to use our roads in the right way. With those few remarks, I support the withdrawal."
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"content": " Hon. Eric, the son of Mumbi, do you want to contribute to this? I am told Mumbi is the mother of all the Agikuyu. If not, let us have the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, Hon Kimani."
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Today's Motion concerns the discharge of the Public Transport (Motorcycle Regulation) Bill, (Senate Bill No. 38 of 2023), which is now being officially withdrawn from the House. This Bill is sponsored by the Senator for Kakamega, Dr. Boniface Khalwale. I have gone through it and while some clauses in the Bill are offensive and may have warranted the Senator’s decision to withdraw it, it is unfortunate, as the Bill contained several provisions that would have greatly benefited that sector. Hon. Temporary Speaker, before I debate the merits or demerits of the debate, there was a Presidential Decree that was made in 2023 requiring training fees for bodaboda riders to be Ksh2,500. I have checked and there are programmes that are being undertaken by the Automobile Association of Kenya (AA), by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and the National Youth Service (NYS), that reduce the cost of that particular training to around Ksh750. However, those particular programmes remain a mirage because there is not enough publicity on them, even to our constituents. For you to acquire a licence to ride a bodaboda, you need to have a provisional driving licence that you apply at a cost of Ksh650, a test application fee of Ksh1,050 and a licence endorsement of Ksh600. I checked a few of the training colleges in the country and they charge between Ksh5,000 and Ksh10,000. For a skillset that is very important to the people at the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "bottom of the pyramid and the real hustlers of this country, training fees for bodaboda riders remain too high for them to afford. As the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure retreats to relook at how to bring this Bill back, it will look at affirmative action to make sure we reduce the cost of training. There are matters that are being raised by the Members in this House, for example, the accidents that are caused by bodaboda riders. Some of them clear Form IV or Class VIII and the easiest business to start becomes that of a bodaboda rider. If the training fees were reasonable enough, then that particular rider would be motivated to go and do a bodaboda riding training before they start riding. The bodaboda sector is very important to our economy. I dare say we cannot live without it in this country. It is our last mile connectivity in our transport. When you want to go to the deepest parts of our villages or urban areas, where some of the roads are small, we rely on those bodaboda riders. When people fall sick, they take them to hospitals. If there is a theft in a particular village or any other security matters, the first respondents, most of the time, are not even police officers, but bodaboda riders because most of them operate for 24 hours. This is, therefore, an area that is critical to our economy that we need to protect and provide affirmative action, so that those riders can have training and better access to safety gears such as helmets and reflectors. If you check around, especially in Nairobi, you will notice most of the bikes have their lights on with a yellow circle at the front, including during the day. Those are electric motorcycles. They have saved fuel consumption or the cost of running those bodaboda by more than 50 per cent. This is as a result of policy directions that were made in this House. The Finance Act of 2020 provided for zero-rating of electric motorcycles and their parts. This, fundamentally, has reduced the cost of electric motorcycles so much so that I have seen multinationals such as Uber and MOGO invest in them through venture capitalists in that particular entity. Therefore, you have seen the profitability of bodaboda riders, especially those who render delivery services in Nairobi. They use electric motorcycles. We hope that the private sector will take this further to our villages, so that the bodaboda business can be more profitable to those young people who are hardworking. As much as we want to blame our bodaboda riders for the accidents, motorists have also contributed to this. Most of the time and especially around roundabouts, we squeeze out some of them. You find some of them carrying a lady, and she gets scared because there is a"
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"content": "or car that is squeezing them almost off the road. Out of that panic, sometimes, the passenger shakes or the rider panics. Even as we control the accidents that are caused by those"
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"content": "riders, motorists need to respect each other on the roads. Our bodaboda riders are equal to motorists. They deserve respect on our roads. There is another policy direction in this House. I sponsored the Business Laws (Amendment) Bill that was passed. One of the critical amendments we had was to stop the exploitation of the ‘Buy Now Pay Later Programme’ that was being done by financial institutions. Bodaboda riders would pay a deposit of Ksh20,000 for a motorcycle but, after calculating the amount of money they paid for the loan on that motorcycle, they would find that it was twice or thrice the cost. In addition, if they defaulted on one payment, even towards the tail-end of the repayment of the loan, the motorcycle would be repossessed. So, by bringing the ‘buy-now-pay-later’ schemes under the purview of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), we expect that they will adhere to the principle of not charging interest of more than the principal amount of an item. Those are some of the interventions this House has made. We urge the private sector to innovate and make bodaboda riding as comfortable and safe as in the examples we have talked about of China and Rwanda. There is a company called Oya which has partnered with TotalEnergies Stations such that, when bodaboda riders fuel at TotalEnergies Stations, they contribute towards a medical scheme for themselves and their The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "passengers. Those are some of the products that we would like our insurance industries to innovate and come up with – health cover for bodaboda riders and their passengers just like for motorists, is an affordable and accessible solution."
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