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"content": "We laud the interventions that this House has made, and look forward to the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure coming up with more innovations that will cushion our bodaboda riders against the high cost of training and safety gears such as helmets, which they need. We need to thank them because they are a good example of organisation. Bodaboda stages across the country are organised. There is a chairman in charge of every stage who approves all the riders for that particular area, and know each other. Some of them have welfare programmes that are organised at the ward level, sub-county level and even at the national level. If we can find other ways of supporting them, especially with affirmative action products, they can transform our nation, not just economically, but also by ensuring there is safe movement of goods and people from point A to point B. They will then earn a decent income to support their families. Bodaboda riders are very hardworking people. Let us stop castigating all bodaboda riders. Tusiseme watu wote wa bodaboda ni"
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"content": "wabaya na wezi"
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"content": ". There is always infiltration by non-professionals in every sector who do not adhere to good professional conduct. Whether it is the Police Service, legal or the accounting professions, there are always people who do not adhere to the professional conduct of that particular profession. Not all the bodaboda riders are good. However, majority of them are hardworking Kenyans. They work hard to feed their families and for that, we must applaud them, help them and cushion them against the high cost of training and safety gears."
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"content": "With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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"content": " Hon. Stephen. M. Mogaka, Member for West Mugirango."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the withdrawal of this Senate Bill. The bodaboda sector is the lifeline of this country. I speak to this Motion as a business graduate. During my post-graduate course, I wrote a thesis and dissertation on the transport industry as it was then. The transport sector in East Africa was then dominated by multi- nationals and overseas trading companies. At that time, the transport sector was a no-go zone for anybody. That was the model even in the banking sector until the Grameen Model was introduced, which destroyed the assumption that banking is a space for only the big players. Hon. Temporary Speaker, since the Overseas Trading Company (OTC) time, when the"
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"content": "matatu"
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"content": "industry made a debut into the transport sector, it was demonised. Little did people know that the matatu sector would go on to revolutionise the informal transport and make it available to all from destinations that were not authorised stages under the old OTC monopoly. The sector has since evolved and today, the bodaboda industry has even liberalised transport, making it more passenger-friendly by enabling pick-ups and drop-offs directly from and to one’s home. Therefore, any attempt to suffocate the growth of the bodaboda sector would be going in the wrong direction. However, that is not to say that the bodaboda sector does not require regulation. When I went to China, and thanks to this 13th Parliament, Hon. Fatuma who is not here, was with me during that trip. I observed that the bodaboda sector there has grown to even having bodaboda hires, just like cars. One does not need to own a bodaboda to move from one destination to another. Any regulatory legislation that is not bodaboda -and passenger-centric would be a step in the wrong direction. I wish that, under the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), this country would train all our learners on how to use bodabodas and license them so that, as they get out of school, they are licensed to ride bodabodas. This would help us have transport akin to the Kenya National Taxi Corporation"
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"content": "KENATCO). 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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