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    "id": 510162,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the traffic department of this country must also go out to educate the public on the road use and on the safety of our roads. They should even go as far as into our educational institutions to teach us, to teach Kenyans, on how best to use our roads. The traffic officers, for instance, should not only just stick on the roads, wait for bribes and clear everybody who is going across the road simply because they have paid them a bribe. They should go out. People do not know how to use roads and the safety regulations that they are supposed to have. We should also have road inspectors: People to inspect our roads to ensure that they are in good condition. We have very many bridges in this country which have their rails or guards probably destroyed or damaged and it has taken long before they have been put back. For example, on the Yala River on your way from Busia to Kisumu and also the Sio River still on Busia to Kisumu Highway, the bridge guards were damaged over a year ago and nobody from the Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA) has bothered to have them put in place. The road inspectors are very important to ensure that we have our roads in proper condition. I should suggest that alongside the footbridges, we have not thought about the disabled of this country. I have seen one on Mombasa Road where we have one ramp. We have one footbridge which is a ramp for the disabled but on most of the roads, we do not have any. That should also be considered so that when we reach an area where you should cross using a footbridge for the people who have all their walking organs then the disabled should also have a ramp which they should use to cross over these highways. With that hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
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