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    "id": 1162445,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1162445/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I will start by thanking Sen. Sakaja for bringing this Statement and for being a HeForShe; a voice of men fighting for women and their rights. I also take this opportunity to say to the women of Kenya, happy International Women’s Day. I want to remind the Senate one more time that back in 2018, I brought a Motion on matters to do with boda bodas. We discussed a lot of issues that the Government needed to look into. We raised issues of insecurity caused by some of the boda boda riders and operationalization of the regulations of boda bodas. We discussed a whole lot of both positive and negative things and put the Ministry to task to do something about bodabodas. That was back in 2018. It is disheartbreaking when you see the videos of the event that happened on Friday. It pains me that we always complain that we do not have an implementation committee to push for some of our Motions and Statements to see that whatever the Senate resolves sees the light of day. It is a bit painful especially when something like this happens. This House had discussed in detail what needed to be done in the boda boda sector. Now, here we are heartbroken over what happened to our fellow Kenyan. This is one of the few things that has come to the fore because of social media. There are many other negative things that happen to Kenyans revolving around the boda boda sector and there are no questions about them like the other Senators have said. We need some regulations in the boda boda sector and probably a legislation as well. *** A lot of discipline is required. We do not even need to go far. In Kigali, Rwanda, their boda boda sector is organized and they follow the traffic laws. At that time when we raised the Statement, of course we were looking at the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), because they are the custodians of"
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