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    "id": 1279994,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1279994/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order 33(1), I seek leave for the adjournment of the House for purposes of discussing a definite matter of urgent national importance regarding insecurity and killing of bodaboda riders and businesspeople in Teso South Constituency and other parts of the country. Hon. Speaker, insecurity and targeted killing of bodaboda riders has been on the rise in Teso South Constituency where frightful residents have been witnessing dastardly attacks and cold blood murder of bodaboda riders and businesspeople. According to reports, the gang has been targeting motorcycle riders, particularly of the Bajaj Boxer model. The gangs attack them with crude weapons, kill them and dump their bodies beside roads, in thickets, maize plantations or sometimes across the border in Uganda. After killing them, the gangs rob them of their motorcycles. Survivors of the savage attacks have been left nursing life threatening injuries. Astonishingly, all incidences involve riders who purchased motorcycles from credit vendors who offer flexible payment plans, and incidentally, they are killed immediately after they clear the loans or when they are almost through with the loan repayments. This pattern paints a probable well-coordinated collusion between some creditors and criminal gangs to attack targeted motorbikes, kill the owners and repossess them for resale to other clients who might likely suffer the same fate as initial owners. It is no wonder that whenever an owner of a motorcycle is killed, his motorcycle tracker is immediately dismembered making the motorcycle untraceable. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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