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    "id": 315880,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of motor vehicle accidents and indeed, the wider issue of safety on our roads, is a complex issue. We want to approach it from a multi-facet approach. Before this House are three documents on this subject. There is a Sessional Paper on the Integrated Transport Management awaiting discussion by the House. There is also a National Transport and Safety Authority Bill that has gone through the First Reading and by now, it should be going through the Committee and getting ready to come for Second Reading. We also have a Traffic Act (Amendment) Bill, which describes certain penalties and what we need to do in terms of sanctions for people who do not follow the law. Once the two pieces of legislation plus the Sessional Paper are approved by the House, we shall have provided the right framework for management on safety on our roads. In addition to that, we obviously also have the National Road Safety Council, which is conducting an action plan in terms of curbing the carnage on our roads. It is going to take the collective efforts of not just the drivers, the passengers or the pedestrians, but of each one of us to sort out the issue of accidents on our roads. The numbers are not the best when you look at where we are. With the list that I am going to table, you will see that the numbers are huge, but the good news is that the numbers are declining when you compare that our population and the number of vehicles on our roads are increasing. So, in terms of accidents per vehicle or per population, we are not doing as badly as we did in the past. Things are looking up, but there is still a lot more to be done to totally eliminate fatalities on our roads."
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