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    "id": 510077,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "wrong side of the road and even if you hoot, nobody is bothered to check if that vehicle has a problem or why you are hooting. Sometimes, people are killed that way. Pedestrians, especially mothers and children, are killed mostly because of their ignorance. They do not know the rules of the game especially when they are walking on the road. This Bill is very important. We need our children to be taught that once they get to the road, they should not behave as if they are in a field where they are playing football or other games. When they are on the road, there is a problem because it is used by machines that can crash one. That lesson should start from the word go in our schools and as the children grow up, they should know that roads are dangerous places. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other road users should also be penalized, especially if they break traffic rules. In our country today, if somebody is hit by a vehicle or a pedestrian is injured, usually the driver and the insurance company are penalized. But nobody goes to the details of knowing exactly how the accident occurred. Through experience, I have noticed that many pedestrians who are hit by vehicles contribute even more than 50 per cent to the cause of that accident. Look at our City of Nairobi; people use Zebra Crossing 24 hours, 7 days a week even if the lights are green, red or any other colour. They just walk because there is a Zebra Crossing until they cause traffic jam because they do not bother to look at the traffic lights to know when one is supposed to cross and when one is supposed to wait for the vehicles to cross. In the developed countries in Europe - and I happened to be there - you will find that if the lights are red, a pedestrian should not cross even if there are no vehicles. But here, we do not respect that. The culture of ignorance is costing us many lives and a lot of expenses because of accidents. This Bill will go a long way in taming those errant motorists who take the opportunity of this ignorance to overload vehicles in the name of making a few coins or making money easily. The Probox, as my colleagues have mentioned, is a very good mode of transport in this country. That is because the vehicle is cheap to maintain; it is cheap to run and is also efficient. Unfortunately, it has been misused. You will find instances - and I will give an example where a traffic officer in my constituency stopped a Probox and when he asked the people who were there to alight, 15 people and five goats came out. So, you cannot tell exactly--- Five goats were in the same Probox. So, you cannot fathom where they were seated or who was on top of the other one."
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