{"id":1561757,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1561757/?format=json","text_counter":545,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"West Mugirango, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Stephen Mogaka","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the withdrawal of this Senate Bill. The bodaboda sector is the lifeline of this country. I speak to this Motion as a business graduate. During my post-graduate course, I wrote a thesis and dissertation on the transport industry as it was then. The transport sector in East Africa was then dominated by multi- nationals and overseas trading companies. At that time, the transport sector was a no-go zone for anybody. That was the model even in the banking sector until the Grameen Model was introduced, which destroyed the assumption that banking is a space for only the big players. Hon. Temporary Speaker, since the Overseas Trading Company (OTC) time, when the"}