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    "id": 1092068,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1092068/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2433,
        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "sent home because of lack of school fees every single day. No one will deny that crime has increased to the extent that people are bold enough to attack police officers and police stations. No one here will deny that divorce rates are going up. We are breaking families. Look at the responses that the Government has given. They are so wanting. I want to read what has been read out verbatim. Following the development of protocols for the resumption of air and rail transport in July 2020, those modes of transport resumed their operations with their full carrying capacity in August 2020 and October 2020 respectively. Why can those same protocols not be used on the buses as well? That is an institution that is currently hiring close to 6,000 people directly! If we look at the indirect employment that people are losing out on, it is a multiple effect. I will go on even further to response No. 3. It states that in order to achieve full implementation of the protocols, the public transport operators are required to collaborate with the NTSA. They have collaborated with the NTSA. The NTSA is aware that the bus owners have done this. No one can tell me that there is a bus owner who cannot put a thermogun to measure passengers' temperature in his or her bus. No one can tell me that we cannot have sanitisers in buses. No one can tell me that we cannot have direct stops from one point to the other. It is a bit scary as well. They are aware that those protocols are in place. They have even said that the Federation of Public Transport together with the Ministry of Transport and Planning, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and other state departments; including the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the National Transport Safety Authority (NTSA), reviewed those existing protocols from March 2021. It is now six months down the line and nothing has been done and yet, we are getting sad by the state at which this country is moving. If people will not take action, we will lose out in this country."
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