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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to contribute to this important debate. It has taken a long time for this Parliament to accede to the needs of Kenyans who travel using motor vehicles. Like my colleague, hon. Midiwo, said we should include motorbikes in this Bill. Therefore, I believe that the most able Chairman will include an amendment on motorbikes in this Bill. Kenyans have suffered; I know a lot of people have suffered. Every time there is a problem in the constituency, the first person to be informed is the hon. Member. It is good that this Bill has been brought to this House. The amount of money which has been put is not high enough, but you can never compensate for a life or serious injury to a human being. Let us stand with this amount and make it effective. We have had another problem and I do not know how we can address it in this Bill; the problem of lawyers getting paid and taking the whole payment without paying the victims of those accidents. We have seen a number of lawyers being de-registered because they have taken disabled people’s money; people who have been maimed. The other day, I read a story in one of the newspapers, where somebody was involved in an accident some 17 years ago, and Kshs18 million was paid as compensation. The victim received Kshs800,000 out of Kshs18 million which was paid. We should address that issue too. The lawyer took Kshs17.2 million out of Kshs18 million. We have to include in this Bill, the maximum fee a lawyer can get out of accident compensation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we may have to include the duration a court case should take. It should be clear how long a court may take to determine a case. Our courts are working; you have seen the duration it takes to determine a petition. It has been quite fast. Maybe, we should ensure that they dispose of cases within a specific period of time, maybe one year or nine months, so that it does not take 20 years. It should not take 20 or 17 years for one to learn that he was paid money, which he never The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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