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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "It is a concern that these accidents have been happening very frequently. A big concern as colleagues have mentioned, is in terms of the quality and standards of the roads and buses that these students are using. Nonetheless, I want to bring a different concern. From where I sit as a parent of a student, as you know travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa is about six to seven hours and one single driver is assigned to this particular bus. You will find that the driver has woken up very early in the morning at about 4. 00 a.m., 3.00 a.m. or even 2. 00 a.m. to prepare for this journey because the law says by 6.00 p.m all school buses should be back in the learning institutions. Additionally, this is what the Ministry of Education advises. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it would be okay if the learning institutions would look into the issues of the drivers and be able to assign two drivers per every long trip of more than four or six hours. We must make sure the driver who start the trip is not the same driver who drives back to the institution because it is tiresome. It is very fatiguing to have the same person driving this vehicle for long hours. We have lost this future as a country. It is sad, but this issue can be looked into. Allow me to talk about the issue of the charges or fees that are being introduced by the HRMPB. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you know very well, most of these students who undertake this Board examination, are trying to elevate and become members of this institution. I heard Sen. Oketch talk about the figures amounting to over Kshs50,000 in terms of administration cost--- Where do we then leave our Human Resource (HR) institutions when it comes to employment? Mr. Speaker, Sir, last week, we were here undertaking an impeachment because of a corruption case where a managing director was being bribed to facilitate employment of a youth. As you know, the HRs are the ones who undertake employment. If these are the costs that they are going to incur, then what do you expect when people are in the job market? We will have some who are rogue, corrupt and will try to see how they will compensate their fees. This will result to asking for some of the things that we heard last week through the impeachment process of how money was exchanging hands in exchange and purchase of a job opportunity. Human resource is a very sensitive and important department in each and every institution. So, it is very important that the Committee that has been assigned this get to the bottom of it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I finish, on the last Statement by the Senator for Meru County, I also request your office to speed up on the reports from these Committees, so that we can get immediate answers for some of these issues that have been raised, either through Statement or Motion. As I conclude on the issue of one gentleman, Daniel Bernard, alias Sniper, this is a young man. The Kenya Kwanza Government has put strategies to create different opportunities for the young people. One of those opportunities is content creation. We have many young people who have embarked on making their revenue or earnings on content creation. That is why during the Finance Bill, we looked at the taxation levels, and this was lowered, so that we can encourage them to make a living. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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