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    "id": 485868,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/485868/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Allow me to support this very important Motion that seeks to sanitise the boda boda industry. In Migori County, every other young person is a boda boda operator. Those boda boda operators do not even own boda bodas that they ride. They are owned by some other tycoons who lease them out for work. For me, this Motion will try to look at how we can empower those young people. Every time we think about boda bodas, we think of academic dwarfs and people who have not gone to school and yet, that is an industry that even graduates are participating in. It is a very important industry that we need to regulate. One of the things that has been affecting the boda boda industry is harassment from the police. We need to address the issue of police harassment against boda boda operators. In every constituency, the policemen do not stand around road blocks. They hide somewhere in the bush so that the boda boda operators cannot see them. They collect bribes and all manner of money from those operators. This is a very important Motion. We need to recognise that the boda"
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