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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": ".Sen. Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know the protocol of re- informing the person who has informed you. What she is talking about - and I am grateful, Sen. Were of Amani National Congress (ANC) - those are draft regulations. The Ministry is setting the minimum pricing formula at15 percent. I remember we discussed because we pushed for that at the Labour and Social Welfare Committee, of which you are a member of. They are saying that they want to hire a consultant to look into this minimum pricing formula and again start a procurement process to try and agree on a pricing formula. We are saying that will take a year and there will be another government in place by then. It will take too long. What they should factored in the regulations is that I sat with the CEO of Uber, Bolt and all of these companies and we agreed. They said that they are willing to have a minimum flow within themselves. The only problem is that if today Uber sets it at Kshs5 per minute per kilometer, another company goes lower and sets the rest to the bottom. However, they are willing to self-regulate. What should be there in that regulation is that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in consultation with stakeholders shall set periodically a minimum rate such that when the fuel rate goes to Kshs139, the rate of Uber does not change. You find someone has driven you to the airport at less than Kshs1,000 yet it is many kilometers away and fuel is at more than Kshs126. That is the worst thing. I beg, the Chairperson of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare to sit with the Chairperson of the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology and the"
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