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    "id": 510072,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) R.K. Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Rachael Kaki Nyamai",
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    "content": "matter. We were engaging children on their body movement and activity. One of the questions that we were asking is how children come to school and how they get back home. We had an opportunity to take photographs of children inside buses. The buses that our children are using to be transported to and from school are extremely unsafe even for schools which are seen to be at the top rank. This Bill recommends that the number of children in a vehicle needs to be checked to ensure that our children are safe. That is most welcome. To me, this is the highlight of this Bill. When the bus is overloaded, those children are then exposed to unhealthy circumstances. So, I would like to say that this is very good opportunity that we need to seize as we support this Bill, which puts our children in perspective. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as Kenya moves towards being a middle level economy, it is in this country where people are seated inside a vehicle--- I would like to call it what my colleague, Member for Balambala, has called it, ‘the Probox menace’. For some of us in our constituencies, the Probox is the means of transport. When you count the number of people in that Probox, you shudder. It is really a bad feeling. I do not know and I would like to find out whether during the Third Reading, there is a way of enforcing this. Today in our hospitals, we have wards that are specific for motorbike accident victims. Most of the accidents today are not as a result of the vehicles that we are discussing here, but it is the motorbikes that use the wrong side of the road. Can we make a specific mention of the motorbikes in this Bill? Motorbikes with five children on board; motorbikes with a mother and her three children on board and they do not have any way of protecting themselves. It is something that we may want hon. Lekuton to mention so that it comes out more strongly. On the issue of restraining our children, as we move towards being a middle level economy, we need to think about this. In other countries, what we see is children being properly cuddled by using the prescribed child restraint devices which does not happen here. It is not only with the poor or middle class, but even for high ranking individuals in this country. We do not take those safety measures. As I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak, I would like to say that this is a very good and healthy Bill that needs to be taken seriously. As we do construction of the roads, instead of thinking about the extra budget that comes with the pavement, let us think of the good health of Kenyans who will walk along that pavement and those who will cycle along the pavement. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity."
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