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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lesuuda",
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        "legal_name": "Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I would also like to touch on something else which is a bit different; attitude. This refers to our attitude regarding some of the basic things we are talking about; from the leaders to the people we represent. Even now without this lane, there are many times I have seen an ambulance or I have heard the siren of an ambulance from far and you can see some of us just driving on and refusing to move out of the road. Surely, this should be common sense. Even now as we speak and hope that this Motion will be passed and implemented, there are things that are just common sense. I think it is important that even as we are in a digital Government, we should also have digital brains as Kenyans. We should think about the welfare of others and also imagine if we were the ones in that ambulance the following day, whether we would like other vehicles to move out of the way so that we can be rushed to hospital. It goes far beyond traffic to things like uprooting of road furniture that have been put on the roads like Thika Road, so that we can sell them as scrap metal. I also know that scrap metal is illegal in this country. So, you wonder where it is being taken to. There are also some simple issues like littering. It is all about attitude! That is why when you talk about traffic in this country, sometimes it is just attitude. Some Senators who have spoken before me have said it. You can clearly see that if you join that road, that there is nowhere that you are going, you will only inconvenience others and it will take several hours to actually clear that traffic. But you just see somebody going into that road and blocking everybody else and we take hours in traffic jams. If it rains in Nairobi, it is clear that we cannot handle traffic in this country. I do not know whether we all leave our offices at the same time, but it is something that I have never understood what really happens in our city when it rains. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is actually becoming a shame that there are actually some tourists who say that they come to see our traffic jam; the matatus and the craziness on our roads. I do not think it is something that we can be proud of. It is something that we should be embarrassed about and actually take it upon ourselves to ensure that such a thing does not happen. I have been to countries where whether it is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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