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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kagongo Bowen (",
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    "content": "Marakwet East, JP): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 44 (2) (c), I seek to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing regarding the traffic control in Nairobi City. We appreciate the construction of the overpass from Mlolongo to Westlands. However, since the work started, the Chinese construction company has ignored the road users of Mombasa Road causing a serious inconvenience to them. The traffic congestion along Mombasa Road starts as early as 5.00 a.m., in the morning, and goes on throughout the day. This has caused adverse effects such as people missing their official reporting time to the offices, some of the employees have been dismissed from their work because of reporting late, air passengers have missed their flights, people have missed their business meeting, and it has even caused some deaths because the ambulances which carry sick people along Mombasa Road, are not able to maneuver the heavy traffic to deliver patients to the hospital on time. In addition, there are costs which are associated with traffic jam. Hon. Speaker, it is against this background that I seek a Statement from the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the following: (i) The measures put in place to ensure smooth flow of traffic in the city despite the ongoing construction and what is the role of Traffic Police Department in regard to the traffic flow; (ii) When will the contractors provide safe and alternate access roads in order to reduce the traffic within the said route of Mombasa Road? (iii) What are the plans in place by the contractor to ensure that the diversion sections of the road under construction are repaired to ease flow of traffic? I thank you."
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