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    "speaker_name": "Malava, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "junction at Kaburengu. The design of the road is so poor that we always have accidents, particularly at Kaburengu. I do not know why this should be a problem because I believe we have engineers who can draw and design roads and do what is required. Even after design and construction of the roads, they have no sign-posts. So, you find, for example, a place that has a depression, there is no proper indication for drivers to reduce speed of their vehicles. We need to find ways of reducing the number of accidents on our roads. During the late President Moi’s regime, he had banned driving of lorries and trucks at night. I do not know what happened to that decision. As the previous speaker has just put, we have rules and laws. If the current Cabinet Secretary can effect the rules, including the ‘Michuki rules’, the issue of trucks and lorries moving at night would be checked. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on school buses, a careful look will reveal that they are not designed properly. They have a weak structure. When they are doing a speed of, say, 100 kph, they are prone to rolling. The bus designers need to recheck and reconsider the body design of school buses and other buses on the roads. The other victims of road accidents are motorcyclists. In Uganda, motorbike riders respect traffic rules. Here in Kenya, it is very interesting, they respect no rules, not even traffic rules. They move about even on highways as they wish causing a lot of confusion on the roads. When the lights are on for pedestrians to move, the motorbike riders also move thus causing a lot of accidents in the country. I do not know if we can talk about salaries, but I know of some drivers from the western part of Kenya who drive from western Kenya to Nairobi. It takes between eight and nine hours to get to Nairobi from Kakamega. The driver who started the journey, say, at 7.00 a.m. arrives in Nairobi around 5.00 p.m and he is expected to drive the bus back to western Kenya. I think we will also have to look at this matter. It might be an issue of payment by the employers who may want to have only one driver for purposes of managing their wage bills. Otherwise if this is taken care of, we might control the number of accidents in the country. I thank Hon. Nabulindo for this Motion."
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