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    "id": 1421406,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1421406/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "When we come up with that policy that I said earlier of increasing the allocation - can you imagine that only the Kshs60 billion is meant for all the roads KeNHA, KURA, KeRA - we will then be able to upscale our activities in terms of maintenance of the roads. Meanwhile, what is available now, we are using them, but also because the county collects cess from the sugar factories and farmers, it is important to put them under pressure to make sure that the other roads are maintained within the county. Sen. Eddy is passionate about this issue and he has discussed it with me in several locations. What we need to do is to upscale also the civic education-related issues; training and awareness for the tractor owners and the company owners. If the companies took responsibility for safety measures, not leave it to NTSA or the Ministry - safety is important. Let me give you an example. After the Sachangwan accident, most of the oil marketing companies took responsibility, including, establishing vehicular telematics in their offices, and they can monitor their trucks from Mombasa to the border. You have seen, there is a major reduction in road accidents involving oil tankers. There are also some companies, for example, Bamburi Cement, that has very clear vehicle telematics. Their lorries are rarely involved in accidents because they monitor them. I wish the sugar companies and the sugar growing companies and cooperatives would be able to put also safety as a very important factor in terms of a measure of what they do. Unfortunately, we do not have a compensation mechanism for road accidents in the country except for the claims through insurance."
}