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    "id": 1233408,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cecilia A. Ngitit",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill and congratulate the mover. The bodaboda sector is a necessary evil to all of us, specifically to northern Kenya, as well put by my colleague from Samburu, where there are no roads. Bodaboda remains our ambulances. They remain our best mode of transport because most of our roads are impassable. The bodaboda sector has contributed a lot to our economy. It has created jobs to the young people of this nation. At this moment when fuel prices are very high, motorbikes remain the best mode of transport because their fuel consumption is low and they are cost-effective. The bodaboda sector faces various challenges. One is the failure by NTSA to train bodaboda riders. These people just buy motorbikes and go to the road without knowing traffic rules and safety measures. This accounts for the high number of accidents we witness in our country. The bodaboda riders also face exploitation by the police. They also face exploitation by owners of the motorbikes. If you look at some of the arrangements under which they get the motorbikes, you will pity them. The owner of a motorbike gives it to a young boy and at the end of the day he has to be given Ksh500. Now that bodaboda are many, at the end of the day the young man has not made even a single shilling but he has to give the owner of the motorbike Ksh500. That is a challenge. The other exploitation these people face is exploitation by credit facility firms. There are firms that give bodaboda operators motorbikes and are paid on a weekly basis. We are going through economic hard times and bodaboda riders do not make good money to enable them pay the firms that give them bikes on credit. Most of them service the loans, but when the balance is as little as Ksh2,000, the firm repossesses the bike. Someone services a loan up to Ksh180,000 and his motorbike is repossessed for failing to pay Ksh2,000. There are many regulations that this august House should consider so that we cushion the young people from exploitation of this nature. I support this Bill. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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