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    "id": 1235783,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "There was an incident in my constituency where three children of the same mother were being carried on one boda boda, but they never reached school. They all died on the road. That is a tragedy for a family. This boda boda was not able to use his lights properly and he turned left before he had turned on the lights and a vehicle came and rammed over the boda boda. Three children of the same mother died on the same day. This boda boda had just passed a traffic roadblock but the police never bothered to know what this guy was doing on the road. He was bothered with what the rider gave him. These are the issues that we are talking about in the boda boda sector. How are they regulated and licensed? Nowadays, anyone who can ride a boda boda just rides it, with or without a licence. No one bothers to know whether these riders know traffic rules or not. One just picks a boda boda and starts transporting passengers. It is a sad state yet we have traffic enforcers on the road. They do not look at these issues. I have never seen a situation where a boda boda rider has been stopped at a roadblock and is asked for a licence. They never ask them for their licences. They only ask them; ‘‘Umenibebea ile kituyangu?’’ That is all that matters. Once they get their share, they let the boda boda riders pass without any question. If the officers were enforcing these rules, every boda boda would have gone to a driving school to get some basic knowledge on road use. People think that as long as you can ride a boda boda, then you know the road rules. That is where the problem is."
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