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"content": "accidents are not the old. It is the young riders and young passengers who die. That is not to say that older people do not die as a result of those accidents. Today, I sadly remember the late Hon. Hassan Kullow, the Member of Parliament for Banissa Constituency. The people of Banissa Constituency do not have a representative and have stayed without one for close to a year now. Why? Out of a motor accident occasioned by a bodaboda . Why? Because we do not adhere to the rules. I remember the case of the late Hon. Kullow. I think it was some gas cylinders or luggage that were tied to the bodaboda on both sides that actually hit him and led to his death. Hon. Bonny Khalwale may imagine that it cannot happen to him because he is a Member of Parliament and that he has the privilege of having a big car. We can never know Hon. Temporary Speaker. We all walk and drive on the same roads as bodaboda riders. If we do not create order, we will only have ourselves to blame. We must not wait for that time of regret. We must do that which is right by enacting laws that will regulate the entire public transport sector. Let us look at our trains. At times, we only have God to thank. During rush-hour on some routes, I do not want to name them, passengers ride on top of a train and not inside the train. They hang on it. Imagine, in some places, the train goes through tunnels and bridges and people have to keep ducking as it goes through. Where is order in that sector? Do we still have a Cabinet Secretary in charge of that sector? We have a whole State Department in charge of Transport, but how many Kenyans know who the Principal Secretary for Transport is? I am certain that if I asked Members here who the Principal Secretary in charge of Transport is, they would not know. You can hear the Members asking. That is why we miss the late John Michuki. How I wish Senator Khalwale would have the balls of the late Hon. John Michuki. However, we live to do what is right, and I pray that the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, of which Hon. TJ Kajwang’ is the Ranking Member, will act to ensure there is order in the entire sector. When we speak about telematics in traffic control in Nairobi and other urban centres, the system alone will not deal with the problem. It has to be systems and our own habits, how we drive, walk, or ride on those roads. Whatever manner of traffic control systems we put in place in the City and other areas, they will all be investments in futility and a waste of public resources if we do not change our attitudes and behaviour. We must ensure that all public sector modes of transport, from"
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