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    "id": 65757,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Pesa",
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        "legal_name": "John Dache Pesa",
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    "content": "does not belong to the youth, but to those people who work; they employ the youth to make money for them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, we have some challenges that I want to talk about here. One of them is the cost of a motor cycle. We have discovered that an ordinary youth, who has left school, may not have funds to buy a motor cycle. So, there is the challenge of getting money to buy motor cycles. The other thing which is a challenge is the harassment by the police. You find that the boda boda operators do not have access to training facilities. Therefore, the police misuse that lack of training to harass the youths. That is why one of us has said that they form kangaroo courts which judge the youth; that the police get money from the youth at whatever stage. The issue of lack of training is very important because it contributes to accidents all over the country. I remember that for the last one month, we have had many accidents in my constituency, because the boda boda operators are not trained. Therefore, we are calling upon the Government to think of a way of training them. We have spent a lot of money to construct many roads around the constituency, thanks to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Now we can now reach any part of the constituency by use of the boda boda . We cannot afford to say that our youth are benefitting, because they are employees of the working class, who are able to buy motor cycles. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, because the youth have failed to get formal employment in our Government, the Government should come up with a policy on absorption of our youth, because they form over 70 per cent our population. Since they cannot get any meaningful employment in the Government, we have this industry as their savior. They at least get some money. On average these people earn about Kshs5,000 per day; out of this, they hardly keep Kshs1,000 in their pockets; most of this money goes to the owners of the motor cycles and some is taken by the police, who harass them. Therefore, I want to support this Motion, because it very important for this country at this time. It states that we urge the Government to urgently provide a policy framework to regulate this fast growing and vital sector of our society, and to set up a"
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