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    "content": "pay through M-PESA. You do not even need to give your kid in university money to carry. By the time he is near home, he sends the details of the M-PESA account to his mother, father or brothers. It has made life easy. Kenya must be part of the developed world. Let us not introduce a situation where when you tell a taxi driver that you want to go to the Stanley Hotel and because you do not know where it is, he takes you to Upper Hill, Westlands, then he brings you back to the Stanley Hotel and you pay Kshs2,000. I was a student at Moi Forces Academy (MFA) many years ago. That is how taxis used to harass students from MFA in the city. When the bus from Garissa drops me in Eastleigh and I tell a taxi driver that I do not know where MFA is, he first takes me to Dagoretti then brings me back to MFA. I then pay Kshs3,000. We want Uber but I agree with Hon. Arati that we do not also want our people to lose business. In the same way M-PESA has transformed people’s lives, we really want our taxi drivers to form companies and groups, create an app and compete in the market as it is. This is a very good Petition. I do not think it can reach the threshold. We ask our people not to engage in business as they did in 1970s. They should engage in business as we are in 2018. Let them create their own app and compete."
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