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    "id": 394743,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "back. Many of these roads which would have been super highways are still not expanded. The road to the airport was only expanded five years ago to three lane traffic. When you travel to other countries and other cities - I was in Istanbul recently - you will wonder what we were doing all these time when others were putting up a foundation in their nations. Most of these countries cannot brag of any particular wealth like oil or expensive minerals. They simply invested in a vision and were committed to that vision through discipline. This idea of having a lane for emergency purposes is long overdue especially, particularly with the discourteous nature of the Nairobi motorist. I have seen ambulances and other emergency vehicles trying to meander through traffic and many of us would not have the courtesy to step aside and let the emergency vehicles to move on. In addition to these kinds of infrastructural development which are necessary, they are no longer an issue of discretion. We need to ensure that we build a framework of discipline in terms of our road usage. I think we must discipline people and people must develop courtesy. Madam Temporary Speaker, sometimes if you want to know who has borrowed a car, according to my analysis, these are the people who will go and block traffic when they are going nowhere. You will find someone driving a Mercedes Benz and knows that if he goes to the jigsaw, he will block everybody. So, rather than to allow others to continue, one goes and blocks it. There are two things to that Mercedes Benz: Either you stole it or you borrowed it. If you have the brains to buy that kind of car, then you cannot fail to make a simple decision that is only intelligent or reasonable to allow someone else to pass so that you do not block the traffic. This idea is long overdue but I wish Sen. Karaba had also had similar spirits and visions for Mombasa County. If you look at Mombasa County as it currently is - many of you are regular visitors there for whatever reason like politics, Senate activities and so on - you will see congested small roads. We are even in a worse situation because we have bridges where you either use the bridge or sink. Therefore, it is incumbent that this spirit must be carried in all counties where we think we need to unblock the grid of traffic. These issues about emergency lanes are no longer a luxury for this country. It is so nice to feel that we need to develop. If we were developed, we should have had these emergency lanes and ramps for people living with disabilities. We should have factored in the less disadvantaged of our society. Therefore, I think the Senate and the devolution systems give us an extraordinary opportunity to be able to rethink the model of this country. My friends talked of being digital, but being digital must demonstrated in our actions. We must also use digital mechanisms rather than the manual ways to control our traffic; that the Superintendent of Traffic can sit somewhere in a room and be able to control the traffic in Nairobi without having traffic policemen physically on the streets. They unblock one area and little do they know what is happening in the other areas. So, we need to ensure that we have a global plan."
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