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    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Rachael Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": "people, both male and female, are participating in this business, and are able to bring up their families and pay school fees using their earnings from the bodaboda business. I would like to support that there is need for registration. If possible, the registration should be attached to the rider and his or her motorbike. This will ensure that people at the county and national levels, including the offices of the chiefs and the assistant chiefs, are able to tell where a bodaboda is operating. This will help to trace them and show where they started their journey, the places they went to and where they endedt. This will also help to deal with crime. I would also like to link the matter of accidents by bod boda riders to lack of licencing. Most of them are lying in hospitals. The Levels 4, 5 and national hospitals are full of accident victims through the bodaboda sector. This clearly shows that people are riding those bodaboda without training. There is a worst-case scenario where we found the underage riding bodaboda . This is not even a matter of the change on this Bill, but enforcement of the law. People without identity cards (IDs) are finding themselves in the bodaboda sector; riding and getting into accidents. I would like to encourage the Committee and Hon. King’ara; as they look at this, that it is extremely important to also link with the other Committees that may be involved in this. We have noticed that our young people are suffering, especially those who get into contracts that they do not understand. When someone is buying a bodaboda, they do not look at the percentage of the full amount that they have to pay. I would like to give an example of an institution that has made many Kenyans suffer. I will use the word ‘allegedly’ because of the business aspect that is attached to this. The institution is called Watu Africa. In my constituency, young boda boda riders come to me, one after the other, and tell me that their motorbikes have been seized by Watu Africa. When I followed up, I realised that, that is an institution that has given bodaboda to very many people. After looking at the payments done, I realised that some riders had paid up to Ksh160,000 and Ksh170,000 and they lose it at that point. This is a serious matter that needs to be looked into. As we talk about regulating the bodaboda sector itself, we need to also look for a way of protecting those people such that, when they are getting into contracts, we have a person who assists them to look at the amount that they are going to pay at the end of the day, and for how long. That is because some of those institutions have exorbitant percentages. I will not forget the issue of crime. Some of those bodaboda are very good, but there are others who are involved in crime like stealing and they have the ability to hide and pass without being noticed. This needs to be looked into. Before I sit down, I would also like to ask for a way that our young girls can be protected because a bodaboda rider is a very important person in the villages that we come from. Some of them have the ability to lure young girls into early sexual activities and immorality. As a Woman Member of Parliament, I want to request that this matter be looked into. It is just a case of indiscipline, but it is clearly linked to some bodaboda riders. There are cases of early pregnancies and HIV/AIDs being transmitted because of the privilege that those riders have to transport those young girls. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would like to state that I support Hon. King’ara. It is important to have that sector regulated. Despite the concerns of the Committee, I would like to say that I fully support this amendment to the NTSA Act. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
}