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    "id": 835664,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues to mourn the many lives that we lost through this brutal accident. I also want to register my disappointment to the way we have responded as a country to the welfare of our people in different sectors. As a nation, we never grow until we reach a stage when we must make systems work. We are very good at responding to disasters and accidents. When accidents happen, we actively mobilise and talk aloud about them, but we do not seem to question our systems. I wonder why our systems are not working. We should decide how our systems should work. First of all, I want to bring to the attention of this House the fact that as we go through the budget appropriation and implementation of the various policies and practices which we have funded, it is very important for us to ask, and in the case of transport, how we are going to ensure that road carnage decreases. What mechanism is the Ministry going to put in place and what resources have we given them? Upon that basis, we can call the Ministry officials to account on what they have said they will be achieving to see whether they have achieved it. If they have not achieved it, they should be able to tell us why. I am looking at three categories of actors who are involved in this accident. This has been talked about a lot. We are talking about the traffic police. Their job does not stop as long as vehicles are moving on the road. Are we saying that all the way from Nairobi to Londiani and Kericho, there was no traffic inspection of the vehicle? Were there policemen assigned to man this road on the material night? Have they given an account of what they did on that material night? These are some of the things we should be seeing. We should not be seeing the owner of the vehicle being the first victim. We should be seeing the people who are supposed to make sure The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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