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    "id": 1446337,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for a good reason, this Bill has generated a lot of interest and I thank Members for demonstrating that. I assure them that whereas this is my brainchild, the Bill is ours because none of us is not affected by its provisions. I beg that we either send proposals in writing or do personal proposal for amendments, which should be incorporated in the Bill. I assure everybody that I have taken notes. I will be looking for everybody who has proposed something to see how we can work on that particular amendment to make this Bill much better. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I cannot allow this debate to end without putting on record the name of an old man from Busia called Mzee Ali Mayende. Ali Mayende was working in Uganda. When his father died, he sold the family cow and bought a bicycle, which he would use during the difficult days of struggles in Uganda in the 1980s. He would carry soap and cooking oil to Uganda. In exchange, he would come back with beans, maize or sorghum. He used not to go through immigration offices, but instead made use of what we call back at home as panya routes to avoid immigration officers and it became a business. After some time, more and more people realised that it was a way of earning an income. They used to move from one side to the other side of the border and that is how the name boda boda came about. It is the one that gave birth to this industry. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I was a young man like you in the National Assembly in 2002--- I do not know where you were at that time, you must have been in the kindergarten---"
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