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    "id": 294707,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 372,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the onset, I want to make myself very clear that I stand to oppose this Bill. I have several reasons why I stand to oppose the Traffic Amendment Bill. One of the reasons is that as much as I do accept that we need a law that must put order in the traffic sector and among road users, in the way we relate with each other, when we are on the roads and that we will bring down the rate of accidents in this country, when I read through this Bill, this is not the solution. The proposals in the Bill are “unimplementable”; the proposed Bill is not practical at all. When I look at this Bill, while at the same time, I am looking for solutions and hon. Mututho has really appealed to emotion of Kenyans, because of the high rate of accidents in our roads, of which hon. Member, I will want you to know that we are all concerned. We are concerned about the high rates of accidents on our roads. We are all looking for solutions but the solution is not abolishing the traffic police. The solution will not be provided by failure to separate the crimes from the accidents. When you want to say every accident becomes a crime, it is not going to work. There are those drivers who are very careful - and that is why it is called an “accident” - and somewhere along the line, a driver will cause an accident. When I read through this Bill for every so-called accident that was converted into a crime, every driver who causes the accident cum crime will be fined in the better part of it, ten years jail or over Kshs500,000 fine. It is impractical. How many boda boda people can afford Kshs500,000? How many matatu drivers can afford Kshs500,000? Even how many MPs can afford Kshs500,000? Let us be realistic in what we propose in our laws."
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