Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 767906,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/767906/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 102,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abdi Koropu Tepo",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Isiolo South",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13350,
        "legal_name": "Abdi Koropu Tepo",
        "slug": "abdi-koropu-tepo-2"
    },
    "content": "Touching on the Motion before this House, as I was coming this morning, I saw a lady on a wheelchair in the middle of the road because she was trying to avoid some potholes. I was really concerned for the life of that lady. If there was a lane designated for use by people living with disabilities, she would not have been in that situation. Up to now, I do not know what happened to her. We need to designate a lane in future so that our people living with disabilities will not be at the risk that I saw that lady exposed to. It may be difficult as mentioned by some Members because of the unavailability of land in Nairobi, but what about other centres? There are new cities coming up. For example, Isiolo will be a resource city under Vision 2030. Why can we not have such a lane designated for emergency vehicles and for use by people living with disabilities? This House should not urge but demand that any road that is coming up must have a lane designated for emergencies and for use by people living with disabilities. Then we should give a timeframe within which the roads which do not have emergency lanes engage engineers to construct them. This should be cascaded downwards so that county assemblies should pass Bills that will require any road that will be designed in future to have provisions for security lanes and lanes to be used by people living with disabilities. Otherwise, we will be faced with a situation like what I saw this morning. That situation should not arise again. We should not have people living with disabilities in a situation like the one I witnessed this morning. On that basis, we should demand that the Kenya Urban Roads Authority and the Kenya Highways Authority to include in any future roads they will design specific lanes for people living with disabilities and emergency lanes."
}