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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have just listened very keenly to the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing make his presentation with respect to the petition that was made by long distance truck drivers. This is a very serious matter. The EACC, in its quarterly report, made a report to this House to take action with respect to this question of weighbridges. I would have expected one of the recommendations to be directed to Hon. Asman Kamama’s Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security so that they can deal conclusively with this question of corruption at weighbridges. As it is, the recommendation from the Committee is to the EACC and yet the EACC has made conclusive findings that weighbridges are full of very corrupt people. It is incumbent upon the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing to come up with stringent recommendations that can be implemented by the Ministry of Roads and Infrastructure to ensure that those people who are manning weighbridges are not there for more than one year. I agree with Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo that there is no one called “Traffic Police”. All of them are policemen. On the second limb of his assertion that people should ignore policemen, of course he is uttering unlawful words. He knows he can be arrested for ignoring lawful instructions from police. It is incumbent upon this House to come up with legislation to regulate weighbridges to ensure that persons who are deployed to these weighbridges are not there on a permanent basis because these have become dens of corruption. We need to get rid of corruption but we cannot get rid of it if we allow people to go to court when they are transferred. The Judiciary is also to blame. The Judiciary should not be entertaining every application and granting injunctions. If you grant an injunction for an officer to be transferred from one place to another, that is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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