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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First, may I start by congratulating our colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, for coming up with a very beautiful piece of legislation. For those of us who have travelled to Rwanda, we see this as a very important step in the right direction. In Rwanda, you do not see more than one passenger on a boda boda. In fact, they are so organised that when we were there for sports, we kept asking ourselves, what happened to us? How do we introduce motorbikes and confuse the roads with the same? I congratulate our colleague for coming up with this Bill and I support it. However, I would like to request the Senator to look at a few areas. In Clause 5(f) and (g), he is talking of membership to the board. He states that the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) responsible for transport appoints four persons. Clause 5(g) states two members be appointed by the CECM responsible for transport to represent groups with special interests. My assumption is that Clause 9 is referring to members of Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCOs) and maybe the new association that has been introduced by some hon. Members. The improvement I request him to look into is that the CECM should not be appointing on behalf of the representative groups. We are in a stage in this country where public participation is very crucial and the groups themselves do representation. It may be necessary for him to tweak that a little bit, so that we actually have the representative groups appointing members to this board because this board will be the driving force. In fact, I was personally impressed by this law because it is taking the boda boda business to the county. It is very important that the counties take responsibility for this because of the proximity of the activities. My first suggestion is that the representation of groups be a result of an election or selection by the groups themselves; be it the owners or the riders. Secondly, he switches Clause 5(f) and (g) so that we have only two appointees to come from the CECM and four from the representative groups. It is very important that when we are talking of regulating a system, we have more representatives of the actors. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am bringing this point of suggestion, but I note what you have said to our colleague earlier; that if we want to introduce as amendments we will introduce them. I want the Senator to think this through so that when we come back with amendments, it works well. I am so impressed with the registration of boda boda riders and membership being within a body that can be felt and seen. I do not think that there is any of us who has not attended a funeral of somebody who died because of boda boda accidents. Therefore, it 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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