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    "id": 638770,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I had an issue of national concern that I had asked for your intervention. Under Standing Order No. 209, the Committee on Implementation has a role to ensure that the resolutions made in this House including those of Petitions are adhered to. In June last year, the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing took my Petition and got a very good response from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in charge. The response was that the CS in charge of Transport and Infrastructure would erect standard speed bumps at the location to enhance road safety and this would be captured in the Budget for 2015/2016. The issue came to the House and it was agreed that the Committee on Implementation would follow it up to ensure this is done. I am asking for your ruling because after talking to the Chairlady of the Committee on Implementation--- Sometimes it is very difficult when things have been agreed upon and the CS in charge assures you, but later things are not done. Yesterday, the Meru-Nairobi Highway was closed for nearly six hours. Before I brought this Petition to the House, we had lost six lives and yesterday we lost another life of an old woman. Worst of all was that I was called by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and put to task. They believed I am inciting the community to block the road because I had brought the matter to the House and I was promised that the bumps would be erected. They were erecting barricades with the belief that it is a matter that should have been dealt with. In this case, I am seeking your indulgence to know what could be done in such circumstances. Are we supposed to go to the Ministry, negotiate and beg or is it another opening for corruption because I do not know what I am supposed to do to the engineers or the CS for the bumps to be erected? I am talking about Kangoro Bus Stage between Chuka Town and Kathageri which is a black spot yet we have many bumps on that road and it is not going to be a unique feature. I seek your indulgence."
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