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    "id": 835614,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the recent accident was the one in Kericho where over 50 Kenyans lost their lives. What are we not doing right as a country? I challenge the Members of Parliament and the leaders of this country to be serious. We cannot do everything all the time. Kenya has no shortage of laws when it comes to road usage. The Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development has to tell us what it is doing to curb road carnage in this country. When you go to the National Spinal Cord Injury Centre in Nairobi, you find that 98 per cent of patients there are as a result of road accidents. Disability in this country, which I have, is as a result of road accidents. As a country, we are not doing right. We know very well that we had Legal Notice 23 that brought about the issue of ensuring that public service vehicles in this country are regulated. These are the regulations and guidelines that had the issues of how to manage SACCOs. How is our public transport system managed? In developed countries, where I have had opportunity to live, there are countries which even tell their people to walk to work. In this country, with our limited facilities, all of us have to get into our vehicles all the time from as near as Buruburu to drive to Nairobi. This country had the train system. When I was growing up, Kenya had the mass train system that operated from Mombasa to Kisumu. I do not know where the trains went to. It is high time we revived the train system so that our people can use the facilities to go wherever they want to go. Last year, we lost high profile people like the Governor of Nyeri County, who died in a road accident."
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