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    "id": 320464,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 38,
        "legal_name": "Emilio Mureithi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. Let me declare from the onset that this is the sector that has brought me up, that is, the transport sector, specifically the PSV subsector. It is even what gave me a paying goodwill which made me land in this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is one sector that really requires a lot of attention. These amendments are long overdue. However, while I am supporting the Minister for having brought them in the House, there are quite a number of issues that were, perhaps, addressed with a bit of emotion. Others may have been omitted. Let me start with those that were omitted. In the National Transport Authority Bill, there is a proposal that there will be a levy to take care of the activities of the Authority. I want to propose that under the Transport Act, we set up a tribunal which will be taking care of all the interests of the stakeholders and assist you in ensuring that you also stamp out corruption on our roads. These tribunals could be set up in every county. You will be able to get rid of all the traffic cases from the ordinary courts. The cases will be handled by the tribunal which should be funded by the motor vehicle owners specifically the PSVs which form the bulk of those cases that go to court – they can really contribute towards this in the form of a levy. This way, you will have sorted out many issues, for example, the judiciary backlog and corruption. Enforcement also becomes consistent. I believe that if we set up this tribunal, it will move this sector many strides forward. It will create sanity right, left and centre. This is because it is supposed to include the stakeholders who I believe want to see the sector flourish. The Bill should have a clause directly transferring the Traffic Police Officers from reporting to the Office of the President to reporting to the Ministry of Transport. We should have that in black and white the way we see it in the Railway Police, the Anti- Fraud Police, the Kenya Ports Authority Police and the Airports Police. I wish the Traffic Department could exclusively be handled by the Ministry of Transport, so that the duties and responsibilities can be very clear for the Minister to issue policies and ensure that they are implemented by the officers who report directly to him. This way, we will be out of the crisis. It is also important to implement what the previous speaker has just said. I do not see why you need an ophthalmologist. Eye sight is one of the areas where you do not need machines. You only need to stand in front of big and small numbers and letters and whoever is confirming will just say that you cannot read 30 metres away. For that matter, your eye sight must be either improved or you are not fit to drive a vehicle. We should do away with anybody else examining the eye sight. The examining officer should access whether a person has good vision or not. If he does not have it, then he should be denied the license to drive. Since we intend to introduce regular examinations, I propose that it"
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