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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. What happened today is deplorable and sad. All principles of governance on either side were broken. The issue of arbitrary taxation without participation is the problem. But taking law into their hands by the matatu people is similarly bad. When an issue like this comes, instead of seeing it as national problem we start having ethnic issues and political issues; the problem is that Nairobi City does not have public transport. The matatu industry is inefficient and it cannot provide transport to the people of Nairobi. Some hon. Members may be young and may not know that there was good public transport in late 1960s and 1970s. The buses were so regular and you could use them. There were no people waiting on the queues because there were buses. Sometime in the 1970s, it was said: “ Wachawananchiwajitajirishe ” and matatus were made legal. Then, as some hon. Member said, somebody came in and “killed” the Kenya Bus Service Company. This is the result! What we need to do as country is to go back and develop transport because it cannot be done by private business people."
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