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    "id": 1379537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1379537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2792,
        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
        "slug": "john-waluke-koyi"
    },
    "content": "I lived in the United States of America (USA) for some time. Police officers in the USA do not chase drivers on the roads, or detain a driver for hours by taking their driving license or car keys like they do in Kenya. In the USA, they use closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and people obey the traffic rules. When the lights indicate that cars should stop, all drivers obey the rules and stop. Driving in the USA is very smooth and there are very few accidents unlike what we experience in Kenya every day. Whenever you watch the news, you always come across a news item of a trailer that has killed people, like what we saw yesterday where a very young child lost her life. Action should be taken to ensure that our police officers do their jobs because they are employed to look after Kenyans and their property. However, many accidents in this country are caused by police officers. They stop a vehicle abruptly and another vehicle hits the stationary one killing people. We should seriously consider this amendment to the Traffic Act because technology keeps changing. Kenyan police officers should also follow traffic rules. They should not just collect bribes or waste peoples’ time. A person may be going to engage in business and then he is stopped for committing a traffic offence such as skipping a traffic light. Such cases should be taken very seriously. I support this Bill. I ask my colleagues to pass it so that we can save many lives and not lose them through accidents."
}