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    "id": 832777,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13174,
        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, motorcycles have gone a long way to cause many other challenges, apart from just causing accidents. We realise that the motorcycle business is so lucrative that many pupils and students drop out of school just to go and make quick money from motorcycles. Without that regulation to cap the type of people who can ride the motorcycles, we shall lose our youth – who would have otherwise completed schooling – to boda boda business. Madam Temporary Speaker, many of our youths start riding motorbikes before they acquire the necessary training on how to use them. This is one of the reasons why we have rampant motorbike accidents on our roads. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also have a social problem that is greatly attributed to motorcycle business. A few minutes ago, the Senate Majority Leader talked about how women who use motorbikes are harassed by the riders. Some motorbike riders prey on school going children, especially the girls. They entice them with free rides from home to schools and sometimes they give them money to buy mandazis . While our boys are dropping out of schools to venture into this boda bodas business, our girls are also dropping out of schools due to unwanted pregnancies caused by motorbike riders. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the regulations, we need to specify the minimum age for a young man to be engaged as a motorcycle rider. It will be important for us, as a country, to conduct serious interviews, so that we only have qualified people to ride motorbikes on our roads. We must also make sure that they have driving license and their motorbikes have a valid insurance cover. This is a business that calls for sobriety. It is a pity that some of these boda boda riders have caused many deaths on roads. Another problem associated with this business in my county is that youths who have dropped out of schools are forcing their parents to sell their pieces of land to buy them motorcycles. In cases where parents decline to do so, they are killed. It is not a wonder to see some youth killing their parents because they have refused to buy them motorcycles. That is why I am vehemently supporting these boda boda regulations because I want to see our school going children complete their education. I would be glad to see these regulations implemented as soon as possible. With those few remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support this Bill."
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