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    "content": "vehicle, that will ensure that some of us will leave our vehicles at home and get into an organized public transport system. I can assure you that if you went to other countries, you will find ministers and other senior Government officials, including prime ministers, using mass public transport because they are well organised and stick to time. There is no pride in running around in traffic with a chase car yet you are stuck in the same traffic with all of us. Why does a Cabinet Secretary need two or three chase cars only to be stuck in the same traffic with us? They increase two or three vehicles in the traffic jam yet they cannot move. Some decisions must just be made so that Cabinet Secretaries and other senior Government officials lead the way. They should reduce the number of vehicle that they move around with. A person should just have one vehicle. If you are in a family, you should ensure that family members use one vehicle. Let us, as a country, get down to serious business and make our commitments to ensuring that we deal with the problem. If that happens, one will be excited to jump into a tram straight from the Chambers just outside here and within 10 minutes, they will be at the airport or closer home. These things are possible. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we work on a standard gauge railway, it is possible to develop an elaborate mass transport system within the CBD so that Nairobi City continues to have the reputation that Sen. M. Kajwang talked about. He said that Nairobi is one of the best cities in Africa. We must provide a better infrastructure and take bold steps to move this country forward, not only in Nairobi, but also Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Kittony should know that this is one of the best Motions. We hope that the Committee on Implementation and the Committee on Roads and Transportation in this Senate will take up this particular matter so that it does not appear as if we are just urging the national Government to enact legislation. We should walk around and look at the best legislations available that have worked in other countries and propose them in this House. We should not wait for the Executive or any other institution to act. We should propose and enact legislations. We should engage and meet with the relevant stakeholders to put our heads together so that we sort this particular mess and problem, once and for all. If that is done, we will save a lot of man hours, fuel and lives that would, otherwise, have been lost in instances where ambulances are unable to reach patients. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support and I congratulate the Mover. I hope that this will be one of the Motions that we will pursue to its logical conclusion to ensure that we not only enact the legislation, but also organise all the other institutions and Government agencies to help us sort out the traffic problem, not only in Nairobi, but also in other towns, once and for all. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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