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    "id": 835667,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion by Hon. Florence Mutua, Member for Busia. I start by sending my condolences to the family of the victims of this road carnage. Most of the people who are affected by road carnage are from western Kenya, particularly Kakamega County. It is so sad that one county can lose over 40 people in one accident. As my colleagues have said, there are various issues that we need to look at to address this issue of road carnage. One is the issue of institutions that are involved in issues of road transport. The NTSA, traffic police officers and the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development are sleeping on the job. In particular, the NTSA and traffic police officers are busy competing in taking bribes from motorists rather than looking at the security of road users. The Ministry in charge of roads is letting us down because most of the roads do not have road signs and safety features. In fact, in most of the roads, you cannot even see a bump. You can imagine the stretch from Londiani to Muhoroni which has so many bends, has no signs indicating where there are bumps, yet we had a bus full of people going down with no clear signs in place. What do you expect? You expect an accident to happen. Why do we train in driving where we are taught all manner of road signs yet you cannot see even 10 road signs on our roads? Something is wrong. This is a very basic issue. I know this House passed a resolution that all tarmac roads in this country must have road signs and safety features. We need to revisit the resolution through the Committee on Implementation to ensure that it is implemented. Our people are dying because of simple things like lack of road signs. There is the issue of corruption. Corruption is killing us everywhere. Our people are dying because of corruption right from the point of construction of buses. Nowadays, accidents happen and the first thing you see is the whole roof being ripped off. You wonder what kind of structural engineering was done on the bus. When a bus rolls, the first thing that comes out is the roof. Something has to be done in licensing companies that are involved in building buses. 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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