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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "never have a driver’s licence. We need to do this. This Committee has a duty to do that for this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, two years ago, my own daughter was involved in a school bus accident; the Loreto accident. In that accident, about five kids lost their limbs. Two kids died in Isiolo. One of the kids who lost both limbs, to take her for limb replacement, it cost Kshs.7 million. The girl has just finished Form One and has no limbs because of a reckless driver. You cannot say that if you gave them Kshs.3 million, you have given them any reprieve. I think this money is very little. Let it not be our business about premiums going up. Let insurance companies take responsibility for the people insured; let them take responsibility for the vehicles they insure. Why are insurance companies churning out insurance certificates if they do not wish to take responsibility? We must go after insurance companies that allow un-roadworthy vehicles on the road and allow drivers without driver’s licence. Half of the licences on the roads are fake. It is the responsibility of the insurance companies to verify who they insure. Right now, you can make a call and an insurance broker will deliver a sticker without even knowing which car they are insuring. We must sort out this mess. I want to thank the Committee and say that they have tried. I think it is one per cent of a journey. I know that this an able Chairman, you can take this Bill and do so much with it. Currently, 98 per cent of road accidents are caused by motorcycles. This Bill talks about motor vehicles. If you look at the word “motor vehicle” does it include motorcycles? None of you here does not have a hospital ward full of motorcycle accident victims. They are killing our people. Somebody gets on a motorbike in the morning and by midday he is on the road. He has taken bhang, chang’aa and he carrying an innocent person going about his business. The other day, I saw in Kisumu a boy carrying five school children on the highway. The irony of it is that there was a traffic police officer standing there waiting for a matatu to take a bribe. What do we do? It is only these laws that can help us. Let me tell you, when I said motorcycle riders had to wear helmets and must have insurance, I got into trouble. When I went home for re-election it was such a big thing. I could not even pass on road because my opponent decided to play cheap politics. He said when he goes to Bunge, he will change the law---"
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