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"content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion and say that the schools that are attending Parliament today are doing it for the first time in the history of this Republic. It is important also that we make our Parliament disability sensitive because it has been very difficult to come on board. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is also true that motorcycles are causing a lot of disabilities. If you go to many places and hospitals, you will find even wards now dedicated to take care of people injured in motorcycle accident. That is very bad because these are people who were going on with their normal lives and they happened to have been driven by people who did not take long before they qualified, if at all they ever did, to be motorcycle drivers. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as it has been said by many hon. Members, the burden of care that results from injuries is enormous. Most hon. Member will agree that boda boda operators are critical even in political mobilization. The burden of medical bills is usually directed to hon. Members. I am sure many of my colleagues will attest to the fact that this is among the demands we face on a daily basis. Hon. Deputy Speaker, in that regard, you find that as a country we do not have a proper medical scheme that would, otherwise, actually enable such victims to be taken care of. The majority of Kenyans do not have National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cards and they even have a problem of accessing beds in hospitals, which are actually scarce. If you look also at the duration of training--- I do not know whether in this country we have guidelines on how motorcycle drivers, or cyclists for that matter, are supposed to be trained. Therefore, because of the high levels of unemployment, and because the transport sector is being liberalized, our people are taking to this industry because our young men and, indeed, women can get employment. It is, therefore, incumbent upon us, as a policy organ, to support this Motion, and commit it to the relevant Departmental Committee, so that they can come up with proposals which we can all support. There is also the question of insecurity. Recently you heard of a case of a young person, Gabriel Kinyanjui Mandu, who was being trafficked to Tanzania because he has albinism. The people who tried to smuggle him away were actually using motorcycles. Nowadays, they become shadowy. In fact, to be sincere about what is happening, motorcycles are also being used to commit crimes. This is because they are not like Public Service Vehicles (PSV) where you can say you know who is the driver or the conductor. Therefore, we need a situation where we have a Government registration arrangement, which will enable us to know how these boda boda riders operate, so that in cases where people are attacked, or even in case like that of little Gabriel, we will have some form of recourse. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have gone ahead to register mobile phones and SIM cards. Motorcycles, which are a quick means of transport, and which can access various The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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