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    "id": 1474515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1474515/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "There is no place where the boda boda business has rubber stamped its influence like in the cities. In Nairobi City, we realise how important the people who are represented by the three gentlemen in the Speaker’s Gallery are. This Petition gives us an opportunity to do three things. The first one aims at organising this sector into something that enables us to professionalise it. After professionalising it, we move towards what we promised when we were on top of cars in rallies saying that hii serikalini ya mtu wa boda bod a. Even as we organise, we realise that even our roads do not provide safety of the riders because we have constructed them for motor vehicles without recognizing other motorised traffic that are two-wheeled. Finally, there is the issue of technology that must be approached carefully. When we talk about e-hailing applications, we have to ask ourselves how the share of the proceeds done among the proprietor of the technology, the person who has spent the money buying the boda boda, and the person who is riding it is done. We should consider the terms of the new technology we import to ensure we do not end up enslaving our people. We have companies that do not only mask us with the idea that they are bringing in capital, but also perpetuate an extractive economy so that everything that we saw during the time of the slave trade and colonisation, can be perpetuated using technology that we import but do not own. Let us develop our own technology to enable these people to have e-hailing technology that is home- grown, so that all the proceeds remain in Kenya. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker."
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