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    "speaker_name": "Bahati, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ngunjiri",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmas Kimani Ngunjiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. It is very important. I want to support Hon. Washiali and he will be remembered for what he has given to Kenyans as we end our term. This is very important. I have been called by my people because they are watching and they have told me that Hon. Washiali must be supported. This Bill is very important. I want to bring to your attention the fact about 4,000 people die in accidents every year. If you study the figure deeper, more people are suffering out of not being paid by insurance companies. Because the insurance profession does not have a regulatory body like lawyers have, beneficiaries of deceased insurance principals suffer a lot. Widows cannot reach insurance companies. If they want to reach them, they must engage a lawyer. When the lawyers go to court, and I am sorry for saying this, they start calling themselves ‘learned friends’. You realise the widow cannot get her right to be paid because of the relationship between the lawyers. I do not want to go deeper, but I am someone who says the truth. I have seen some lawyers become very rich because of calling themselves ‘learned friends’. They conspire to keep cases in court for long. The people following up on the insurance claims will follow until they die. I have seen many lawyers who have become very rich and own big houses in Nakuru, Nairobi and elsewhere, who have got their money through the deaths of other people. Let me remind the House about an accident which occurred along Thika Road involving prison officers. The insurance claim was paid to a lawyer, but when he was taken to court, he was only fined Kshs800,000. The families of the deceased suffered. They could not get anything. So, we are going to support this Bill by Hon. Washiali. It is a very important Bill. People are suffering. Today, if you go to wards in general hospitals where victims of boda boda accidents are admitted, you find people suffering. When they try to claim insurance, they do not get their money. It is a problem. Secondly, if your insured car is involved in an accident or your house is burnt, the first thing insurance companies tell you is that you need to pay a certain amount of money so that they can go through the process of paying you. You ask yourself: Was this insurance important to me? If there is a problem with lawyers, people go to the LSK and lawyers are punished and even their practising certificates are withdrawn. Somebody can be punished and his license taken away. This is what we want. This is what Hon. Washiali is following up. We support him 100 per cent. This is a Bill which has come too late, Hon Washiali. I promise you that God is with you. You have brought a good Bill which we can give to Kenyans when we are ending this term of the 12th Parliament."
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