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    "content": "I acknowledge what my colleague has said. Indeed, it is very painful to imagine children who were going home could not reach because of an accident. That incident is extremely unfortunate because the driver of the vehicle was outrightly overtaking at a place where other vehicles had queued, in the Delamere area. As you know, he was trying to get to the junction between Mai Mahiu and Kinungi Road by force, then he met with the lorry head on and we lost our dear children. I feel pained as the Cabinet Secretary in-charge of this sector. Sometimes, I wish I would find that driver and do something to him. That is the truth. The problem is that as a Cabinet Secretary in this sector, you also have to carry the burden of bad manners and bad behaviour by individuals who cause havoc on our roads. Be that as it may, I take responsibility because this job is in my docket. I must continue doing everything humanly possible to provide leadership. Hon. Speaker, as a result, I have directed NTSA to do the following: 1. That, school transportation shall not be allowed to operate between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in line with Traffic Amendment Act 2017, effective immediately. 2. All school children must be allocated seats with functional seatbelts put on at all times. We should not ignore and say you are small bodied; you can be carried or squeezed in a matatu . 3. School vans, buses and matatu s that are road unworthy must be removed from the roads with immediate effect. 4. In the meantime, in the implementation of the Intelligent Road Safety Management System, all heavy commercial operators must ensure vehicles with tare weight of 3,049 kilograms and above are fitted with speed limits effective immediately. 5. In compliance with traffic Standards 2295 of 2018, all the 57 licensed speed limiter vendors must install approved gadgets that will limit speed, record speed data after every five seconds, transmit data to both the NTSA and vendor servers and report violations real time. 6. To ensure all public service vehicles operate with functional speed limiters, a multi-agency clinic shall be formed to verify and validate all speed limits from 25th April 2023 to the 31st May 2023. All stakeholders, including public transport operators, speed limit vendors and the National Police Service, will be incorporated into this multi-agency exercise. 7. On black spot management, I wish to directed that KeNHA, KURA and NTSA to work expeditiously to complete the ongoing road safety audit on all black spots and ensure safety interventions, including installation of signage, reflectors and street lighting within the next 30 days. 8. Additionally, all infrastructure around schools should be audited and declared school zones with necessary road furniture for the safety of our school children within the next six months. I have further instructed the road agencies to ensure cameras have been installed in all black spots. The first phase to be completed within the next four months. Section 36 Cap 403 of the Traffic Act provides that a driver of a public service vehicle or a commercial vehicle shall be required to undergo, every three years, a driving test under Section 39 successfully as a condition for each renewal of license. Further Section 105A (1) of Traffic Act provides that a driver of a public service vehicle or a commercial vehicle shall after every three years from the date of issue of driving license, pursuant to Section 30 of the renewal of license, whichever is the case, undergo - underline - a physical fitness test, including an eye and hearing test by a qualified medical practitioner. Consequently, I have directed that from 1st June 2023 all Public Service Vehicle (PSV) and 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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