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    "id": 1446279,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "This is an innovation and it is a proposal that we will be looking forward to in order to see on how it is will work. This is so that our people who may be sick or the elderly in the villages will have access to the medical ambulances through these motorcycles. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have seen that the Bill also talks about the three-legged motorcycles, the tuk tuks. I remind Sen. Cherarkey that, indeed, the Bill has captured tuktuks. The Bill has also talked about delivery boda bodas. Those that deliver food, goods, every other thing and how they will be managed. They should not be used for any other purposes, but for which they were designated for. They will strictly be used for deliveries. All in all, this is a wonderful Bill. All we need to do is look for a few areas that need to be enhanced, particularly on the issue of financing and ensure that this Bill will not lead to an additional financial burden to the owners and the riders so that this business is encouraged and not discouraged due to costs. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing is inspection of boda boda motorcycles. This is one area that the police in our counties have on numerous occasions harassed our youth who the only crime is to own and operate a boda boda. Harassment of boda boda riders is on the increase. Something has to be done. This Bill has to be very clear that inspection of motor cycles should not lead to harassment. Again, if you open up the aspect of inspection, there are some police officers who will take advantage of it and use it to extort money from the poor boda bodas and intimidate and harass them. Therefore, the issue of harassment of our boda bodas has to be addressed in this Bill as well. This will enable the boda boda riders to comply with the law on matters of safety, and having a helmet and all the other accessories they need to have. However, unnecessary harassment by police must be stopped. This Bill has to talk about that. The"
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