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    "id": 394729,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 125,
        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I was stating, this led to the late Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development to suggest, in his attempt to find ways of ensuring that our guests who visit this city catch their flights on time, that we might have flights between hotels and the airport. Most of these jams are caused by the lack of an emergency lane. If we had an emergency that can be used by all emergency operators, security will be enhanced because even in their attempts to pursue robbers, security agencies will use this lane to catch them. In the case of fire-fighting, most people die in the slum areas not because the slums are so inaccessible but the amount of time the fire- fighting equipment takes from the fire station to get out of the main city to the spot where there is fire, is not something that we can sustain. I also want to support this because a recent study that was undertaken showed that the number of man-hours that the residents and business people in Nairobi lose in traffic jams is actually costing this nation billions of shillings per day. So, if we are losing billions of shillings per day simply because of people sitting in jams for hours on end when they could be constructively involved either at home or in their various offices, then it goes without question that this should be given a priority and we should have an emergency lane that will offload most of this traffic from the main lanes. We also want to take issue with the manner in which we are treating organizations like the Red Cross. If a robbery or deaths have occurred somewhere and the Red Cross is trying to reach that point, they have to line up with ordinary vehicles and by doing so, 20 to 50 lives are lost because we have not taken the right emergency interventions from one point to the other. So, without overstating everything that has been stated before, I rise to support this but I would like to add that in creating this, we should also take care of the many pedestrians who are in Nairobi. We have people everywhere, you find that there is a bus lane, a matatu lane, emergency lanes but nobody thinks of a pedestrian lane. Look at Thika Highway and the money that it cost us. For some reason, the planners forgot that we have people who trek from Korogocho to the city centre and back. There are people who have to trek from wherever they are to their work place and back. So, we are only taking care of motor vehicles and everything else apart from our most valuable assets and our most valuable resource; the human resource. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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