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    "id": 394431,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Arati",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Simba Arati",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wanted to raise a point of order but since I was given the chance to do so then, I will now contribute to the Motion. This is a good Motion but the question that we have is that the Departmental Committee responsible for transport has not dispensed the issue. My colleagues have been talking of accidents occurring in this country. A city like Wang Zhou has 3.5 million vehicles. I was there for about two weeks but I did not witness any accident. I would ask whether we have had anybody taking responsibility for the fatal accidents that have been happening in this country. If today the Cabinet Secretary responsible for transport resigned because of the increasing deaths arising from road traffic accidents since he got into office, we would be talking differently. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would want to oppose the Motion for one reason. Let us give the Departmental Committee responsible a chance to dispense this issue and bring a report to this House. That is the only way through which we can bring order on our roads. We have seen what the ad hoc Committee on miraa is doing. We did not leave the matter to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives and now we are having a circus. We are going to have a confused House, if order is not restored. With those remarks, I beg to oppose the Motion."
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