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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I move this Motion, I would like to say that it is a coalition sponsored Motion. It is sponsored by the CORD Coalition. These numbers might look like mere statistics, but they are not mere statistics. This reality dawned on me when I rushed to the scene of the accident at Ntulele where a City to City bus going to Homa Bay had had an accident and 42 people had died. After I walked out of the mortuary that had 42 bodies, which has normally a capacity of just nine bodies, I walked out to speak to many Homa Bay residents who had come to Narok to view bodies of their deceased. The reality that these numbers are not just statistics dawned on me. As I spoke to the families, one lady came forward and said to me: “I hope you remember me. We were with you in Kisumu Girls”. She was holding back her tears and continued: “Today, I have lost my father, my son and my brother”. I could only hold back myself, but I knew that we had to have a radical departure that these numbers did not just mean 3,000 who are in the air. These numbers mean people’s wives, husbands, fathers, mothers and children. Reality sank on me that day that gaps that were being left by these accidents were unfillable. Peoples’ lives changed for ever from these accidents. These numbers represented bread winners of families. In this decade of action on road safety as declared by the United Nations that is, 2011 to 2020, this House has a moral obligation to come out strongly and speak on the matter of road safety. We must have a radical departure from the past. It cannot be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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