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    "id": 1412538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I appreciate Hon. Nabulindo, the Member for Matungu, for bringing this Adjournment Motion. It is, indeed, important that we have a discussion as a House of representatives of the people of Kenya. There is no one thing that will make traffic fatalities go away. We must work together, and that entails drivers, road users and every other stakeholder in the road sector. Just like Members have said, we do not have a deficit of laws and policies in this country. We have too many of them. The only problem is that the policies and laws that have been drafted and passed, unfortunately, have been used as cash-cows. You go to the roads and you find a very sad situation where the traffic police know that there is a problem with the driver and his vehicle. The driver and the owner of the vehicle also know that there is a problem with the vehicle they are driving. However, the two parties, the traffic officer and the driver or the owner of this vehicle decide to pacify the situation by exchanging some petty notes, Ksh50 or Ksh100, so that they can be left to go about their business. This is a problem and this is the situation that we must speak to and sort out. I remember when I was a small girl, the ‘Michuki rules’ were in force. If you look at the Report that came out after three months of the Michuki rules, you will find that road accidents had come down by a whole 74 per cent. There is no magic that Hon. Muchuki, as a Minister for transport then, employed in that situation. He actually ensured that there was implementation of the policies and laws that had been passed by Parliament and that had been put together by experts. That is the only thing that he did. Many people thought that the enforcement of those policies and laws was brutal, but Hon. Temporary Speaker, it does not 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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