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"speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. May I, ex post facto, recognise and welcome the students of Kisii High School to this House. I wish them journey mercies on your behalf, Hon. Temporary Speaker, and on behalf of the entire House. Kisii High School is one of the premier schools in that region. It is only my Kibirigo Boys High School that competes with them. I was launching the bursaries at Kibirigo Boys High School yesterday. The number of As they posted are enviable. I will be inviting the Principal, Mr. Clement Nyang'ai, to bring the students who performed well here. Hon. Temporary Speaker, let me now contribute on the Motion. I support the Motion, which is on protection of bodaboda riders, or recognition of the motorbike industry in this Republic. If there is one informal employer that puts money into the pockets of young persons, it is the bodaboda sector. I do not know what we would be doing with our army of youths if a majority of them were not engaged in bodaboda sector. In my constituency, through provision of bursaries, I will be giving out scholarships for training of bodaboda riders to ensure that they ride safely. The training will ensure that riders have basic first aid skills to enable them attend to their passengers in case of an accident. They will also be equipped with some basic auto repair skills to ensure that as they ride on the roads, they are able to self-help. We know that bodaboda is perhaps the only mode of transport that takes a passenger from door to door. In terms of convenience, therefore, the bodaboda sector is the most convenient. When I go round in my constituency, in Miruka, Metobo, Egesieri, Nyamaiya, Nyamira, Konate, Sironga, Mubamba, Mosobeti, Nyapara Ibere and Kebirigo stages, I usually see a swarm of bodaboda riders ready to onboard any passenger to any destination. They are very affordable. In one of my visits to China, I noticed that the Chinese have upped their bodaboda industry. Their bodaboda motorcycles are solar-propelled and not petrol-propelled. They are environment friendly, cost-efficient and more cost-friendly to the users. With our CBC programme and the reality that bodaboda is with us now, it is important that the Education Committee considers including in our curriculum basic training for our children on bodaboda riding, management and repair, so that students can use bodaboda transport to and from school. It will be extremely convenient. Above all, we need to introduce a scheme in this country to equip those who want to own bodaboda to achieve their dreams. We need to consider what the African Retail Traders (ART) were doing with higher purchase for virtually everything, including furniture. How I wish that we can come up with a plan akin to the ART model, to enable people to own bodaboda motorcycles through higher purchase. The Shylocks and other financiers in this country are ripping off people who are in need of commercial loans to buy bodaboda. With those few remarks, I support and thank you extremely for giving me a chance to speak. Thank you."
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