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"content": "Dagoretti, Karen, all the way to Kikuyu and back to Naivasha Road. That will take care of the traffic coming from Mombasa Road. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the southern by-pass is supposed to pass through the airport, City Cabbanas, Embakasi and all the way to Thika Road. That will take care of the traffic coming from there. We, again, have the northern by-pass which is supposed to join Thika Road, Kiambu Road, Limuru Road and then all the way to Naivasha Road. If those by-passes were to be done, we would decongest the city centre and the traffic jams would be a thing of the past. We are also considering staggering working hours. Unfortunately, there is no legislation on this. We have to appeal to employers. During the morning rush hour, traffic jam is in one direction while the other side of the road is empty. In the evening, we all face the other side of the road while the other side of the road is empty. If employers could stagger working hours--- There is no law that says that all offices should open at 8.00 in the morning and close at 5.00 p.m. Some offices can open at 6.00 a.m, some at 7.00 a.m, some at 9.00 a.m and some at 10.00 a.m. Some can close at 3 p.m, others at 4.00 p.m, others at 5.00 p.m, others at 6.00 p.m, others at 7.00 p.m and others at 8.00 p.m. We are even thinking of having a 24-hour economy. If we have a 24-hour economy, there will be no specific working hours. Those are some of the things we are looking into. We are also looking at having flyovers, inter-changes and under-passes. We are also looking at how we can remove heavy commercial vehicles from Mombasa Road during rush hours, which has been identified as the main cause of traffic jams. We also intend to maintain road discipline. Anybody who has a driving licence was taught at the driving school that you should keep left on the highway unless you are overtaking. If you go to our highways, you will find old lorries carrying stones and sand, smoking and being being driven on the outer lane instead of the inner lane. This slows down all the traffic. We will also maintain road discipline. One thing that the Committee did not look at is the privatization of our jails. If you go to other jurisdictions, you will see that they have started privatizing jails. In other words, you can give the jails to private organizations to run them and the Prisons Department would receive a lot of money if it were to do this. The other thing we need to copy from other jurisdictions is like, for example, what happens in Israel. I am told that once you are convicted, you are given a timeframe to report to the jail so as to avoid congestion in the jail. So, you can be convicted and be told that the jails are congested, you report six months from the date you are convicted. I am told that people actually report to the jails. They do not run away. Can we try something like that here? Can it work? I think we need to start thinking outside the box. Coming to the reforms that are happening in the Prisons Department, I agree that changing one Commissioner with another is not a way of bringing reforms. Having beauty contests is not a way of bringing reforms. Having television sets in the prisons is not a way of bringing reforms. These are good but they are not reforms. Having âMoody Hopperâ buses are not reforms. The main purpose of prisons is correction. That is where reforms should be so that whoever goes to prison comes out a better person. Those who have stayed in death row as the committee has pointed out, the longest is 34 years, that person should be released. We need to have a timelimit like in other jurisdictions where life sentence means 15 years and below. The moment we have no time limit, somebody can stay there for a long time. The last time some people were hanged was in 1982 after"
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