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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Moi",
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        "legal_name": "Kipruto Moi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. The Salgaa-Mau Summit Road has claimed so many lives that it has reached a point where we have forgotten the number of people who have died on this road. It is time the Government walked the talk. In 2009, there was an accident at Sachangwan which involved a fuel tanker where hundreds of people were killed. The then President, Hon. Mwai Kibaki, and many national leaders, attended the funeral of those affected. It was here that they promised to put up a trauma hospital at Salgaa Trading Centre. Nine years later, this has not happened. Most of the deaths that occur because of accidents is because of the long distances that the affected have to take. They have to go at a provincial hospital almost 30 kilometres away. It is in that process of transporting them to Nakuru that they die. Even on arrival in Nakuru, the facilities at that hospital are not up to date. I am sad I read in the Daily Nation of today, where they call it a Level 5 hospital. It is not. They do not have medicines and facilities to treat those who are affected by accidents. It is time the Government walked the talk. It has been a long time. When the President proposed that a hospital should be established at Salgaa, the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) Committee of Rongai donated five acres of land for the establishment of that hospital but nothing has happened to date. In 2013, as the MP for Rongai, I visited the Ministry of Health. The PS, Dr. Kassachoon, promised that there was progress in establishing the proposed hospital. She told me that there was a donor partner who had been identified in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and that they were at work in trying to build the hospital. Nine years down the line, we still talk about the trauma facility as people continue to die. My plea to the Government at this point, because I would like to give chance to other Members to contribute; is that the proposed hospital must be built. On the section between Sachangwan and Mau Summit, there must be over 200 policemen. There must be so many cars belonging to the NTSA. However, they aggravate the problem. They are supposed to maintain order on the road in order to mitigate accidents. However, they have become a source of accidents. These are two centres of corruption, and everybody knows it. They should not be there. I hope the Government is building a dual carriageway from Ngata to Mau Summit. We pray that this is done. I plead that the proposed trauma hospital is established. With those few remarks, I support."
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