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    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " I thank you for the opportunity, Hon. Temporary Speaker. On the same breath, I join my colleagues in congratulating my sister, Hon. Emaase Mary, for coming up with this most important and timely Motion. This kind of crime is not peculiar to Teso South or, by extension, Busia County. This is an organised crime that has percolated the entire country. Wherever you go, you hear cases of crime touching on bodaboda riders. It is so organised that the trend seems to be the same. Whatever happens in Embakasi West is also happening in Nyando Constituency and Busia County and other parts of the country. Bodaboda riders have become the target of some indoctrinated grouping whose main objective is to kill them and steal their motorcycles. It is interesting that their motorcycles, which to a common degree are on loan, are fitted with tracing gadgets. But each time the bikes are stolen, the operators realise that the tracing gadget is left somewhere. That tells you how organised this crime is. During our very peaceful demonstrations, we commonly hear the police, who flex their muscles and posture for no reason, telling us how their work is to protect property and lives of the citizenry. When it comes to bodaboda riders, such statements fizzle in the air and our people get killed without recourse. We ask ourselves: Where are the police during such periods? Two weeks ago, there was a feature in the news where a DCI officer was gunned down by thugs in some estate within Eastlands. Two days ago, the police managed to trace the suspect and gunned him down. That tells you how sophisticated our police officers are to a degree that they can arrest anyone, whether you commit a crime at night or day time. They have the capacity and wherewithal to do so, but there is laxity when the victim is not one of their own. Just because a fellow police officer was killed, they had to return fire for fire, but when a bodaboda rider is killed, the police all of a sudden go dumb, not to be heard again. The police tell us that their work is to protect lives and property during our peaceful demonstrations. We are challenging them to act in the same fashion when bodaboda riders are subjected to inhumane treatment. We understand that the importance of the bodaboda sector in 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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