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    "id": 205419,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to our Ministry's Vote. September 5, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3707 I would like to take this opportunity, first to congratulate the Minister for the way he very well laid down the policy of the Ministry of Transport. He made it very clear that, as far as traffic laws and accidents are concerned, the main purpose of the Ministry is to lay down the policy. The enforcement is in another arm of the Government. I think he made it so clear because we were getting a little bit tired that every time there was an accident, that was the time the media, the FM stations remembered and started calling us and asking us why that accident had occurred, as if we were the driver. So, I think that has been very well laid down. He also put it very well that the enforcement of the traffic laws is in another arm of the Government. What is required for this country are traffic wardens. We must distinguish police work from traffic work. Traffic work in other places is carried out by traffic wardens. The day when that happens, we will be able to get rid of bribery on our roads and enforce our traffic laws. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to commend the Minister on the way he gave out the proposed plan on how we can improve on the road and rail traffic. He said that at the moment, 80 per cent of our traffic is on road and only 20 per cent is on rail. These figures are untenable! If we continue this way, even all the roads that have so far been made by this Government are going to be destroyed. So, ways and means must be sought for increasing traffic on the rail. On the issue of our matatu, PSV and all other drivers, I think we need to do something about matatu drivers. At the moment, I do not know where they are getting the technology. Their technology is ahead of that of the police. Now they have remote controlled bypass switches that disable the speed governors. I am told that the remote control gadget is not kept by the driver but by the conductor, so that when they see policemen on the road, the conductor switches it on, and it activates the speed governor. However, as soon as they pass the police roadblock, the conductor switches off the gadget and it is in his pocket. We need technology that can detect where the gadgets have been tempered with. We are encouraging our scientists and engineers to come to our aid and give us a machine that can counteract this move. Let me take this opportunity to commend the Permanent Secretary in our Ministry for guiding the Ministry---"
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