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    "id": 1561720,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support the Motion to discharge the Bill. Many of my colleagues, including the Mover, Hon. TJ Kajwang’, the Leader of the Majority Party, who seconded, and Dr Oundo, have said all about this Bill. I just want to say a few things. Number one, in the pastoralist areas where I come from, there are no roads at all. A village may have only one matatu that leaves as early as 3.00 a.m. to town and return in the afternoon. Motorcycles play a very important role in transporting women who are going to markets. The motorcycles have also helped students going to school by transporting them from the village to nearby towns where they can catch a matatu . The coming of bodaboda motorcycles has really completely changed the mode of transport, especially in the rural Kenya. The sub-sector has employed many young Kenyans. It is a source of income to many Kenyans. However, there are a few bodaboda operators, especially in the urban areas, who are very unruly. One day, I was coming from Karen and when I was approaching the junction to Kawangware, around Kenya Science, a lady had been involved in an accident with a bodaboda rider. About 20 bodaboda riders were surrounding the her. As the lady was trying to talk to them, some of them were struggling to get into her car to take her laptops and other valuables. It took the intervention of my security team for the lady to get help. In a normal traffic accident situation, when two vehicles get involved in an accident, the two drivers will come out to discuss and a policeman can come in to intervene to establish who is on the wrong. In the"
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