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    "id": 1282277,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1282277/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move a Motion on a matter of national importance regarding insecurity and killing of bodaboda riders and business people in Teso South Constituency. Insecurity and the targeted killing of bodaboda riders has been on the rise in Teso South Constituency. Frightful residents have been witnessing dastard attacks and cold-blooded murder of bodaboda riders and business people in some cases. According to reports, the gang has been targeting motorcycle riders, particularly of the Bajaj Boxer model. The gangs attack with crude weapons, killing people and dumping their bodies beside roads, in thickets, sugar plantations, maize plantations, and sometimes across the border in Uganda. After killing them, the gangs rob motorcycles and survivors of the savage attacks are left nursing threatening injuries. All incidents involve riders who purchase motorcycles from credit vendors who offer flexible payment plans. Incidentally, they are killed immediately they clear the loans or when they are almost about to finish loan repayments. This pattern pins a probably well-coordinated collusion between some creditors and some criminal gangs to track targeted motorbikes, kill the owners and repossess them for resale to other clients who might likely suffer the same fate as the initial owners. It is no wonder that whenever an owner of a motorcycle is killed, his motorcycle tracker is also immediately dismembered, making the motorcycle untraceable. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the spate of killings of bodaboda riders is making this business a death trap, not just in Teso South Constituency, but also in other parts of the country. About eight people have been killed and robbed of motorcycles and 50 others injured in the last one month. The following include those who have fallen prey to this scheme: Mr. Emmanuel Ekisa of ID No.33324538, from Ekipor village; Mr. Samuel Ong’ala of ID No.2664324, from Asiriam Village; Mr. Stephen Sande of ID No.39721012, from Angorom village; Mr. John Bakwa, from Angorom Ward; and Mr. Benard Ochieng, from Siaya, who was a bodaboda rider in Busia Town. Others are Mr. David Ochieng from Siaya, and Mr. Kyle 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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