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"speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also ventilate on this very important Motion. At the outset, I would like to thank our colleague, Hon. Oscar Nabulindo, for this very timely Adjournment Motion. The other day I watched the funeral service of a student of Kenyatta University and I can say any human being would be moved. It was terrible to lose that number of students; young people of this country. It was a horrible day for Kenyatta University. We have lost too many lives in this country, and I want to support my colleagues who have spoken before me, that the Government has a responsibility to take care of lives and property of the people of this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I worked with the late Hon. Michuki. He was magical in his approach to solving issues of traffic accidents. We have very comprehensive laws. What we lack in this country is enforcement and implementation of these laws. More importantly is Kenya’s population. The Kenyan people have a very bad character and manners that we must discuss in a national conversation. One really wonders what happens on our roads. There is always a policeman taking bribes and a person giving bribes. How do we change the attitude? In the same breath, the giver and the receiver of these bribes are the same."
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"content": "Another thing to look at is road signage. Some road signage has been vandalised by the same Kenyans in our country. We need our people to change. Our people should know that those signages are meant to save lives. Only a careless person vandalises road signage and takes them for their own use. This behaviour must stop."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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"content": "I am the Member of Parliament for Sotik Constituency. The road section between Chebole and Soimet is a black spot. People have died there. We have had several accidents, some fatal. Some have maimed our people. We have asked the Ministry of Roads, Transport and Public Works to put measures to stop the killing of people in these areas."
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"content": "We have defective vehicles on our roads yet the police cannot stop this thing. People are driving defective vehicles yet none is arrested and taken to court. We have careless drivers. We have seen several people driving vehicles carelessly. Speeding is an issue. I watched Hon. Murkomen on television yesterday. He spoke very well. It is high time we put whatever we are saying into practise. He has very good plans. We are going to see Mheshimiwa Murkomen implement whatever plans he has."
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"speaker_name": "Sotik, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support this adjournment Motion. I ask the Mover to move now and look at the laws we can change and review, or bring new Bills that will change our laws. I thank the Mover and ask this House to take the responsibility of making our roads safe. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Hon. (Dr) Gideon Ochanda, the Member for Bondo."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When we look at what is before us today deeply, we realise that there is a general problem. It is a big one in terms of where the rain started beating us. This is the first question we need to address as a country. It is either our culture or our blood and the way we have been raised. There is a problem. The problem is that we do not value life. What is happening in this country in the name of road accidents would be a crisis in many countries, yet we look at it as the order of the day. It happens and it is now too much. We are losing too many lives. The problem is that we do not value lives and that includes the people who do infrastructure development, drivers, and whoever is a road user in any sense. They all do not value life. There is a general problem in how we do things. We do things in a careless manner not considering whether it will make us lose lives or not. That is what we need to revisit as a country. What is it that we need to do to get back to valuing human life? We are not going anywhere if we do not value life. On the road, you will see a matatu recklessly passing by you and the next question you ask is whether people really value life. We ask that question through and through anytime we are on the road. Matatu drivers behave the same. The police behave the same whether in Kibwezi or Busia. The pikipiki guys behave the same. All of them have a bad behaviour that is common across the country. What is it that we need to do? As a country, we need to look back and see exactly how to start some exercise where we value life. I do not think there is anything we will be doing if we do not value life. If you are a driver who values life, definitely, you will observe road signs. You will be very careful with what you do. You will also not be looking out for the police to tell you that you are speeding. You do not drive at a speed of 160 kilometres an hour simply because the police cannot see you. We need to ask ourselves if it is necessary. For whom are you doing it? For whom are we driving? We must ask ourselves these questions. When on the wheels of a car, we must first know we are driving for ourselves. You will not value life of any other person if you do not value your life; you will not value the life of the third person. This is exactly what we are seeing. We are witnessing this thing day in, day out. We can chronologise accidents. A week or day does not pass without accidents happening involving huge trucks parked along the roadside. A week or hour does not pass without a matatu hitting or killing people. One can track how these accidents happen, like what happened the other week. It happened that in just a week school buses got involved in accidents. The frequency was too much. What was happening? Is it something we want to ask the schools? I am not too sure whom exactly we want to ask. In that week, only buses of learning institutions were getting involved in accidents. Why? Again, it is always the trucks. Why are trucks causing accidents? These things are identifiable. We can isolate them and work on them, including designing and constructing good roads. In my view, we need to start valuing life because if we do not, we will not be safe anywhere in this country."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Hon. Yegon, the Member for Bomet East."
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"speaker_name": "Bomet East, UDA",
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"content": " Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Adjournment Motion. It is of national importance because even as we are debating it, the President has just unveiled the National Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028 this morning at the KICC. He was talking about the same issue of mitigating road carnage in this country. Road accidents in this country happen largely because there are too many challenges on our roads, including how we drive on the roads."
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"speaker_name": "Bomet East, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Yegon",
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"content": "First, the police need to up their game. They do not check all vehicles, including motorcycles. Most of the vehicles driven on our roads do not have working parking, break and hazard lights. I do not know what the police officers check on the roads. They should be making The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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