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    "id": 1561724,
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    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": "sub-sector and make it as productive as we have seen in other countries like Rwanda. We must have bodaboda riders who will follow traffic rules. Sometimes, when you drive on our roads you meet an oncoming bodaboda which is completely on the wrong side of the road. In fact, they will want you to get out of the way and give way to them. We cannot allow that lawlessness to continue. This is a country that is governed by laws. If the Committee is going to take up this matter… We also have the law enforcers, our traffic officers, to enforce the rules very strictly. It is not that we lack laws in this country. We have so many traffic laws. We have become a lawless country where people do not care to follow the law. Sometimes, it is the bodabodas and matatu operators who are found to have violated the law. The politicians and leaders are the first ones to rush to the police stations questioning why the police have arrested our constituents. This makes them emboldened and they do not listen to anybody, including policemen on the road because they know they have godfathers somewhere to bail them out when they are arrested. As I conclude, just like Hon. Kajwang has said, it is not only on 9th floor at Kenyatta National Hospital that you will purely find bodaboda accident victims; but the same applies to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret where there are two wards that are purely for bodaboda accident victims. If you go to any hospital in Nakuru and central Kenya, many of the accident victims are from bodaboda accidents. I want to conclude by saying that the Committee has the support of the House. We are going to support you. Polish the Bill and bring it back. We are going to pass it to regulate the"
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