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    "id": 1412500,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Road accidents contribute to about 3,000 deaths annually. This is more than the number of Kenyans who die from cancer, malaria, and many other diseases that affect our people. To be honest, one of the main reasons for the increased deaths by accidents is purely human behaviour. Kenyans must change their attitude and behaviour. Kenyans go drinking and drive home under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is not something that law enforcement can do. The state of the roads in Kenya also contributes to accidents. As Hon. Tim Wanyonyi has said, our engineers' road design does not resemble that of any other developed country. If you go to Rwanda, you will see how they have designed their roads. I am told that the engineers who designed those roads after the genocide were Kenyans. I do not know how they went to Rwanda to design better roads, yet they designed roads in Kenya that cause accidents. The state of our PSVs is also a contributor to accidents. PSVs in Kenya are not inspected. An organisation called NTSA is sleeping, and I believe it is sleeping because the Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport is sleeping. The Cabinet Secretary is simply a noise maker on X and Facebook, showing us how he lives a good life. The Government must decide whether it wants to protect Kenyans from these accidents. We will talk here every day and every week, but accidents will continue to happen. NTSA is sleeping on its job of inspecting the state of PSVs. The accidents involving public vehicles are very unfortunate. If you ask for a report on these accidents, you will never get it. Innocent Kenyans are the ones who suffer these accidents. They leave their houses to travel with the intent of reaching their destinations. When they arrive at the bus stations, they board vehicles innocently, yet they are boarding death traps. I call upon 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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