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    "id": 1446272,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abass",
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, many of our riders as has been said earlier, are not trained. Some of them have become a menace on the road. You will see them crossing the highways. As a result, they are knocked down or they cause accidents. They also become a nuisance to other people, especially to the vehicle drivers on the roads. They knock you down from the rear side and maybe when they are knocked or they hit you, they come to intimidate the other drivers. They come together like bees and intimidate other Kenyans even when they are wrong. I think there is a need to have some discipline within this sector. Some of the boda bodas are involved in criminal acts and they aid the criminals and many of the criminals take advantage of the boda bodas . Therefore, it is a very important sector, but we need to have it regulated. They also need to have some visible number plates because some of them do not use genuine number plates. They change their number plates or get number plates from the old grounded boda bodas . I think there needs to be a proper registration so that at least we can know their number plates, which should be bigger and visible. This will make it easier to identify whoever does the wrong things. As earlier said, they also need to be registered in cooperatives to easily track anybody who is engaged in any act of crime. One other thing is, in other parts of the world, we have parking lots for bodas bodas and bicycles and you cannot just go and park your bicycle or motorbike anyhow. We equally need zoning areas in places like Nairobi where the boda bodas can park their motorbikes and anybody who wants to get a ride can easily go there and get a boda boda. What is happening currently is that the boda bodas are all over the city and it has now become a problem. Additionally, at the time of demonstrations and all these things, you do not know who is a genuine rider and who is a criminal. We also need to give them special lessons. They have it, but it is not easy to inspect or to stop them at the time they are riding around. Therefore, we need to come up with a system that will at least bring some discipline within the sector. Right now, we are being told that the boda bodas are almost three million in number. It is a fact that the boda boda sector has employed many young men who otherwise could be jobless. The only thing that we need to do is to improve the sector, so that they have value for whatever business they are doing instead of associating them as criminals. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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