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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Even the owners of the matatus cannot benefit from them because they have been taken over by gangs. When we had the “ Michuki Rules ”, I was amazed as the Director of Medical Services by the drop in the number of accident cases, particularly in Nakuru, Naivasha and Voi. Do we need any more evidence that we need to control traffic or we need something drastic to be done? We saved a huge amount of money at that time. I can get the data later on. Alcohol also contributes to these accidents. Some of you may have seen me in my earlier work when I was on the road stopping matatus and asking the drivers to be tested using alcoblow device. The only problem at the time was that we could not use the alcoblow device because the law required one to take blood for testing to determine whether the driver was drunk or was under the influence of alcohol. There are very many factors that contribute to road accidents. Hon. Deputy Speaker, on the role of professionalism, I am happy that this Committee that is being proposed has the names of many engineers and professionals. We need them. I am surprised that the roads that Hitler built are still good but the roads we built less than ten years ago are in a mess. All these contribute to deaths and people being maimed. I am sure technical error accidents are casually investigated. Even air crashes in this country are casually investigated because we do not go into the real causes. Hon. Deputy Speaker, other countries investigate, find the actual cause and therefore come up with a policy to address that. Here we do not do that. So, a Committee that will look into these things is important to us. We must also look at corruption. There have been Government systems and parliamentary Committees and so on but things have not changed, particularly in this area. They only changed when we had the “ Michuki Rules”. That was a drastic measure. However, because of corruption--- Somebody was talking about yellow something in Nigeria. I was travelling over the weekend and we also have them in this country. The Traffic Department is a whole department. If you travel along the road, you see police officers wearing yellow jackets. They are everywhere but does it make a 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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