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    "content": "accidents. Just trying to find out from the young people why there is such an increase in accidents, you will be surprised to find that very many young people, out of what they do in a day, earn very little money. Many of them do not own these motor cycles. They hire them. They are told in a day, you must give the owner a minimum of Kshs400. In a day, this young man after carrying very many heavy people, sweating the whole day, will make Kshs700. You then deduct Kshs400 due to the owner of the motor cycle. Along the way, traffic police officers are harassing these young men who are trying to earn a living through a very hard and rigorous way. Every traffic police officer will ask them for Kshs50. Deduct that amount from the Kshs300, you will find that he will remain with just about Kshs250. Out of the Kshs250, if they were to use fuel of Kshs100, these young people will end up at home in the evening, tired and exhausted with only Kshs150 having worked very hard through the day. Having paid the owner of the motorbike and taken it back, he will rise again the next day to try and earn a living. However, what can you do with Kshs150 or Kshs100 on a bad day? He has a young family. Even if he was to buy half a kilogramme of meat, flour or bread, this money is not enough. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we could find a way of helping these young people and the Government actually studied the boda boda sector properly and developed policies, we can start by developing a training policy. With just about Kshs100 or Kshs150, they are not able to pay for a driving course. When you go to a driving school, they ask the young man for Kshs7,000 and he earns about Kshs150 a day. How will he pay for his course? As a result of this, many young people are not able to go to driving schools. They are not able to train and get driving licences. As a result, they are driving the motor bikes without proper qualifications through driving"
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