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    "id": 65722,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/65722/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Olago",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have the honour to second this innovative Motion by my learned friend, hon. Wamalwa. The Motion is urging the Government to provide a policy and legal framework to regulate that fast growing and vital sector of our society and set up a Boda Boda Fund to provide funds to facilitate training and empowerment of those young Kenyans. Hon. Wamalwa has given a brief history of how the boda boda industry started in Busia. The word â boda bodaâ came up as a result of the fact that bicycles were being used in the no manâs land between the Kenyan border post and the Uganda border post to ferry goods. That is how the word boda boda came into being. The industry then moved to Nyanza, western Kenya and the rest of the country. As I speak before you this morning, the boda boda industry is one of the largest single sectors that employ our youth and create wealth. However, unfortunately, despite the fact that the boda boda, as a means of transport, has attracted citizens, it is posing challenges to the youth. One of the reasons why boda bodas are useful to the society is because the two wheelers and three-wheelers are able to access very many areas of our country which the four wheeler vehicles cannot access. To that extent, they are cheaper, even if they are slower. However, now that we have graduated from bicycles, two-wheel motor cycles to three-wheel tuk tuks, the challenges are the following. Lack of access to finance by the youth makes it impossible for them to own motor cycles and tuk tuks . Most of the boda boda riders are employed to ride those bicycles, motor cycles and tuk tuks by people who are able to buy them. Riders are paid as low as Kshs100 or Kshs150 per day after a hard dayâs work. Therefore, the boda boda industry is now benefitting the rich in our society and not the poor as it is supposed to. As a business venture, access to the industry means that the youth who should benefit from the"
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