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    "id": 394335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 590,
        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "business as usual. This Motion provides a platform for us to move from business as usual to business unusual. The resolution on the Decade of Action on Road Safety calls upon member states to implement road safety activities, particularly in areas of road safety management, road infrastructure, vehicles safety, road user behaviour, road safety education and post-crash responses. If this country is ever to meet the Vision 2030, we must deal with the issue of road safety and we must deal with it decisively. Comparative estimated costs of road accidents, if you look at the various countries, as a percentage of the gross national products of these countries, you will find Ethiopia at 0.8 per cent, South Africa at 2.3 per cent, Zambia at 2.7 per cent and Kenya almost at 5 per cent of our gross national product being wasted on road accidents. These numbers are very high. A major area of concern, while having the road accident conversation, is that of motorcycles as we popularly know them as boda bodas . The boda bodas are a major youth enterprise in this country. In Homa Bay County, we have 15,000 of them and not driven by just 15,000 young men. You will find that they share these motorbikes even three of them. It is estimated that those young men support up to six other members. We, therefore, have an obligation as a House to look at how best to support that youth enterprise. In Kenya, we have an estimated national fleet of motorcycles at 600,000. It is estimated that 1.6 million Kenyans depend on the motorcycle industry with an additional of 100,000 depending on repairs and othe sustenance issues for those motorcycles. This is, therefore, a massive industry. Our young men, however, lack safety training and equipment to save their lives and the lives of their passengers. This industry is increasingly becoming a fatality zone. That is why we find a designated area for bodaboda accident victims in many of our hospitals . We must act."
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