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    "id": 1282338,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I confirm that you were, indeed, one of the brightest stars in our class and you went on to proceed beyond the undergraduate to very high levels of education. You are one individual we are proud of in our Kenyatta University alma mater. I must affirm that yes, you were my classmate. This issue that has been brought to the Floor of the House by Hon. Mary Emaase is a critical matter and cannot be taken lightly. What is happening in Busia is a microcosm of what is happening around the country. Since the inception of the bodaboda, we have seen tremendous growth in that sector. But even with that growth, we have seen very big hazards that have come out of the expansion. Key among them has been insecurity. Shylocks are another hazard that have developed out of the growth of the bodaboda sector. The twin issues of insecurity and shylocks compounded together have led to accidents, maiming and now deaths that we see in Busia. This issue is complex. Even as we debate it here as a Motion, Hon. Mary Emaase must find out a way of escalating it into either a petition or a request for statement, where it will be attended to in a committee and escalated all the way up to the Inspector-General of Police and the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration. The loss of one life is one life too many. Here we are not just talking about one life, but we are talking about life upon life being taken because a bodaboda rider has either fallen prey to a shylock or a criminal or both. As we look at the bodaboda space, their usefulness in this economy cannot be overstated. They offer transport; they offer logistical solutions and they even organise community policing. If we attend well to the matter that Hon. Mary Emaase has brought here, we might even derive a silver lining out of the tragedies that we are seeing. How would we do that? It is by addressing the issue as a policy issue that needs to be looked into nationally. Today, we are trying to manage the bodaboda sector in urban cities maybe as a ward, a sacco, or a constituency. Even in the city, how we organise bodaboda riders in Dagoretti South is very dissimilar from how Hon. Wakili Mwenje is organising in Embakasi West. That means that there is no coordinated approach to the bodaboda issue. We have millions upon millions of 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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