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    "id": 912785,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/912785/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "shelves like other Motions. It will be implemented immediately. This is well within the mandate of the NTSA. The Motion will help it reach out to as many people in this country as possible. We are talking about introducing a curriculum in our primary and secondary schools at very early stages, skills on driving or awareness on road safety. This will help a lot. I borrow a leaf from technology. Our children should be made aware about technology from early stages. We are now starting to get gurus in technology in this country. We have even started to export some of them to other countries because they have grown with technology all along. By introducing road safety, driving awareness and skills, and also simple mechanics of a vehicle, we will not only expose those children to what they expect to come across in their future, but also make a lot of saving by having a population that is fully aware of the dangers of poor driving. Those will be people who know their right in as far as road usage is concerned. We will reduce accidents in this country. We will also reduce costs incurred by some of us when we go to driving schools in old age. We are also telling those children, at very early stages that there are dangers in touching the steering wheel of a vehicle and that there are dangers in using motorcycles. When they grow and become drivers and boda boda operators, they grow with a culture. Through this Motion, we will develop a culture in our community that will be growing, understanding and knowing the need for people to use our roads in a safe manner. I support this Motion. I encourage Hon. Osoro not to just move this Motion, but also to follow it up to its implementation because it is a very important one. As I close, I must speak about our boda boda industry. This is an industry that I support and one that we all agree on. The importance of boda boda and its contribution to the economy was alluded to by our Cabinet Secretary in his Budget Policy Statement. It is high time that we took that to another level. It is high time that the Government came up with a fund that will not only support boda boda in their insurance, but also support them to acquire licences in the simplest manner. In my constituency, I have taken it upon myself to start a driving school that will help those young men and women to continually go for their driving licences having realised that my NG-CDF is not enough to individually support those young men. We will be starting this school. I have already applied to the NTSA. I hope the Authority will not only give us the license, but also give us total support so that the 8,000 boda boda operators in Mwea could one day claim to have their licenses. On insurance, we hope that instead of the Government just instituting a law for the boda"
}