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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the Mover of the Motion, my good friend, hon. Wamalwa. It is a very innovative Motion. For those of us who represent border districts like Loitokitok, Taveta and Busia areas, this is a very important business. It is economically important to the young people. In terms of employment, it is helping our youth. The biggest challenge that we have as a country and the world over is unemployment among our youth. So, this is a very important sector that needs to be looked into by the Government to ensure that the way of doing business in this sector is made simple, convenient and without many hurdles. As my Secretary-General, hon. Mungatana, has said, the boda boda business is so versed to semi-retail businesses. It is so convenient, affordable and also brings unity among the young people. It makes them busy around the associations or the groups and by doing so, it brings the crime rate down in areas where the boda boda business thrives. I want to dwell so much on the challenges that are facing this small sector. One of the challenges is that the boda bodas, especially the motor cycles, are bought using money borrowed from institutions. They borrow from the Youth Enterprise Fund and the Kenya Women Finance Trust. Majority of them get loans from micro-enterprise programmes. So, if they are not assisted in the way they should run this business, by having a pay-back period, it is going to bring problems, because the owners may not be in a position to pay back the loans they may have borrowed from these institutions."
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