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    "id": 667273,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "The other issue which members have alluded to and needs to be addressed is that of traffic jams. If you go to urban centres like Mombasa and Eldoret - forget about Nairobi - you will find that there are huge traffic jams. Those big cities are dying. A city like Nairobi will not survive in the next 20 or 30 years to come. Lagos had similar problems. One morning you will wake up and you will not enter into a traffic jam but into a parking; you leave your home but cannot move an inch. I was at the airport today and it took me three hours to reach this town. In the next 10 years, you will require 10 hours to get to town which means that the Central Business District (CBD) will die a natural death. Do you know how the Roman Empire died? It died of decay. This city will die of decay. People will not be able to move or transact business. The town will die because nobody can enter or leave. In Nigeria, when they realised that Lagos was not working, they created Abuja. When Dar es Salaam was gridlocked, they created Dodoma. Similarly, in Egypt, people are moving from Cairo to Alexandria. At that pace, this city will die a natural death. We need to clear all these roundabouts. Roundabouts are impediments left by the colonialists. In the modern infrastructure, a roundabout is not supposed to exist. A roundabout is only good in an estate not on a highway. Putting a roundabout on a highway is a recipe for disaster. It means that you will not be able to move because you have a gridlock. You will enter into a parking slot and be unable to move. Time has come for us to think twice in terms of developing this country. We must be innovative. We need an efficient railway line from town to the airport. With that, you will be home and dry. However, if you say that you will move around in the usual way, you will not be able to make it. Another issue which I want to address is accidents in this country, which this Bill must also address. Accidents in this country do not just happen. When you move around, you hit bumps because you are not informed that there is a bump ahead of you. I still have more to say but I support the Bill."
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