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    "id": 294692,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is about life and death. It is about people who are going to die in Naivasha. Recently with a lot of sadness, we buried 26 unidentified bodies which have been left in Naivasha because of these kind of accidents. When you are dealing with this kind of scenario, truly one day is too long to wait. One week is even longer and one year is impossible to wait. We have a time limit in our lives; our lives are not limitless. We need to have traffic flow that functions. Let us look at the practicability of it and look at the Thika Super Highway. True, the Minister is doing something and we thank him. His thinking about Syokimau is up to date and that is how Ministers should do their business. If you look at the number of vehicles that are going to be reduced from Syokimau, it is immense. The same story can be learnt from New York when they did the big highway and forgot the railway could be done. But the Minister has not spoken about the Thika Highway which in itself has a potential to cause even a bigger mess than what that route from Eastlands is doing. So, if the Minister could also say in the same breath that by the end of the year, Thika people will not have to use the big highway but instead have to use the railway line and then use the same facility, then that works. Just in case the Minister forgets, I come from a place called Nakuru County and proudly so. A place where we had the last Cabinet Minister in 1966 and we are contented with that. We are happy because the last one was a personal friend of the then President; Mr. Achieng Oneko, and that was the Minister who was appointed. We are 1.6 million people so we shall not have a Minister but if you look at our numbers like what we have in Nakuru, we are at 1.6 million people. So, now that he is the Minister, if he could in the same breath – since we are children of a lesser god and, therefore, cannot be Ministers – he should give a commitment that there will be another railway line from Naivasha or Nakuru, then he would reduce the carnage around that area. That is what we are saying; but as long as it takes the managers of traffic talking about police and the traffic police"
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