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    "id": 1561759,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1561759/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": "industry made a debut into the transport sector, it was demonised. Little did people know that the matatu sector would go on to revolutionise the informal transport and make it available to all from destinations that were not authorised stages under the old OTC monopoly. The sector has since evolved and today, the bodaboda industry has even liberalised transport, making it more passenger-friendly by enabling pick-ups and drop-offs directly from and to one’s home. Therefore, any attempt to suffocate the growth of the bodaboda sector would be going in the wrong direction. However, that is not to say that the bodaboda sector does not require regulation. When I went to China, and thanks to this 13th Parliament, Hon. Fatuma who is not here, was with me during that trip. I observed that the bodaboda sector there has grown to even having bodaboda hires, just like cars. One does not need to own a bodaboda to move from one destination to another. Any regulatory legislation that is not bodaboda -and passenger-centric would be a step in the wrong direction. I wish that, under the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), this country would train all our learners on how to use bodabodas and license them so that, as they get out of school, they are licensed to ride bodabodas. This would help us have transport akin to the Kenya National Taxi Corporation"
}