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    "id": 771224,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheboi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 329,
        "legal_name": "Moses Kipkemboi Cheboi",
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    "content": "look for solutions. One solution I would like to offer is - I heard my friend talk about a place between Molo and Mau Summit. Most of it is in my constituency. We would be very happy if that area is given priority. There are several tracts of land, some privately owned while others belong to the Government. A small section of the forest can be hived-off to make sure that we provide a resting place for drivers because the cost of these accidents is immense to the Government. Therefore, getting a small piece of land which would have ideally been a forest area and giving it to save lives would be something of a priority. Secondly, there is the issue of the NTSA. The NTSA has been very useful to a large extent, but sometimes they contribute indirectly. Of course, we do not want to blame them because they have been doing a good job. However, in the last few days, there have been complaints generally in those areas; that they place speed gadgets in many sections of the highway and when a vehicle passes, they chase it. When they give a chase, sometimes we could have vehicles causing accidents. Thirdly, we also need, as my colleague said, to make sure that drivers rest well. Somebody drives a truck all the way to Uganda – and sometimes to South Sudan – because people are chasing it to make sure that they make maximum profits. Some of them are paying loans. We need to start thinking of compelling truck owners to employ more than one driver to ensure that one drives a particular number of hours in a day. Those are things that can be done. We should also think of reviving some roads we have abandoned for quite some time. At a place called Kibunja, just after the Molo Junction, there has been a route that was used previously. We could divert it, like it has been done in Mai Mahiu, which has saved a lot of the lives that were being lost on the stretch that leads to Nairobi. Those are the kinds of things that we should look at urgently. Lastly, we should look at setting up bumps and rumble strips. In a particular place very close to where these accidents happen in Total, there has been quite a lot of accidents. We have lost quite a lot of pedestrians along that area near a place called Jogoo. We have made requests that bumps be erected but that has not been done. If it were done, it would also go a long way in saving lives. These are things that should be done very quickly because losing lives is something that is very costly to this nation. I take this opportunity to send my condolences to the relatives and friends of the victims of those horrible accidents. I hope the Government will move with speed to deal with that situation so that we do not have any more lives being lost. Thank you."
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