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    "id": 1233425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Runyenjes, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Muchangi Karemba",
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    "content": "they are harassed very much by the police. This happens mainly due to lack of regulations and the enforcement of the existing ones. We need to push NTSA to come up with ways of regulating that industry because it is likely that in the coming years, we will have too many people in that business because we believe it contributes too much to the creation of jobs. Most of us have been out there in the western countries and even some of the African countries and you can see how orderly that industry is in some other countries, for example, Rwanda. This is because of the regulations that are there and the enforcement of the same. NTSA has a duty to come up with more regulations, so that we can cushion those people from the harassment they get from police and also in the same spirit, cushion the bodaboda from exploitation. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as it has been said by one of the Members here, a young person who is trying to find something to do will get a credit facility to purchase a bodaboda worth about Ksh100,000 to Ksh120,000, and they end up paying up to Ksh250,000. More than half the cost of the motorcycle goes to some of the institutions that are giving credit to our young people. Very soon, I will be coming up with an amendment that will seek to cushion those young people who are in the bodaboda industry from the exploitation by the institutions that are offering those credit facilities. If you fail or delay in paying the instalment, they come and collect the bodaboda and sell it to someone else while you are left with nothing. This is the case and yet you had coughed out a lot of money to acquire the motorcycle."
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