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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. J. Nyagah",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nthiga Nyagah",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said from the beginning, it is regrettable that a situation like this should arise, especially for a young promising future engineer like this young lady. I want to confirm that part of her training internship was to be exposed to the entire engineering sector. So, it is true that she was moved from machine to machine. In the short period she was going to be with the company, we were expected to give her maximum exposure in terms of the range of machines that she would deal with. In fact, on this particular day, she was working on a building that is under construction. When this machine was moved around, many staff members came to the site where this was going on. It is very unfortunate that the girl was on the other side of the machine, which was sloppy and it slipped and smashed her. That is basically what happened. It is very regrettable. In an emergency of this kind, the first thing was to get her out to hospital. The next thing was to alert the police immediately. It took some time for them to scroll her phone book and identify possible telephone numbers of people who appeared to have been called several times. At about 8.00 p.m. in the evening, they caught up with the father in Kakamega. We informed him about this unfortunate incident. Probably, other people could have got the information before him. We wanted to break the news in a manner that the family could handle. In fact, the management sent some money through M-Pesa to the father and asked him to go to their offices the next morning. He did not seem to know where the child was, which was part of the problem. It was very unfortunate. We paid travel expenses for the father to come the next day all the way to Mombasa. I regret that we were not represented at the funeral, but wish to confirm that the staff immediately collected some money which is ready to be sent to the family. In fact, we are making arrangements for that, plus a token contribution from the company. There is no legal requirement for us to do so, but due to the fact that she was an intern in our organization, a decision has been made for the staff to make contributions as well as the company. This contribution will be sent to the family in Kakamega. We contacted Prof. Some, who is in charge of this at the university and discussions with regard to insurance covers were held. I am confident that the insurance scheme will be making the legal compensation. Again, it is with great regret that this incident happened. I sent my condolences to the Member of Parliament, the family and the people of that community."
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