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    "id": 1412555,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1412555/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute on this very important Motion. I want to thank Hon. Oscar Nabulindo for bringing this Motion. As a country, we have lost very many people within a very short time. This year, we have lost 1,300 people within a span of only three months. I suggest that the Minister for Roads and Transport, Hon. Murkomen adopts the “Michuki rules.” Kenyans are notorious. They test the system. The Minister should be firm on the truck rules. During Michuki’s time, trucks could not move during the night. Trucks and school buses should be stopped from moving from 6:00 p.m. School buses have killed too many students on our roads because of careless driving. Sometimes, visibility at night is not good, yet vehicles are allowed to move. If these rules will not be adopted, we will lose many people as a country. I hope the police and the NTSA are going to work. Enforcement officers have not been working. Sometimes we just see them talking on phones instead of working. You cannot stop vehicles and talk on the phone at the same time, the way our Kenyan traffic police do. The Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras must be put on all roads, especially along tarmacked roads all over the country. We should adopt the traffic system in Europe and the USA where traffic police do not put road blocks on roads. There are no road blocks mounted by traffic police, but they have put CCTV cameras everywhere on their roads. If you make a mistake, say, speeding, the traffic police will follow you. The cameras will also detect if you are drunk and you will just notice the traffic police officers following you with either a motor bike or a police chase car. Their police vehicles are not obvious like ours here. They look more like private cars. They are used to monitor their roads. That is what we need to adopt. Recently, I lost three boys who live near me. They were crashed by a truck and we could not identify them. When I was giving my condolence, I said that there were two who I did not know and yet they were my neighbours. They were crashed by a truck. 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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