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    "id": 835928,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/835928/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 646,
        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Transportation, I want to convey my very sincere condolences to the families that were affected yesterday morning by that accident. I want to confirm to this House that last week we had a meeting where we had invited all the stakeholders; that is, the NTSA, Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and the Inspector-General of police. We were probing the causes of an accident where 10 young children lost their lives on Garissa Road. In the course of that discussion, we were told that accidents were due to human error, criminal activities like drunk drinking and road unworthiness. What is even more disgusting is that everybody who is mandated or expected to act, waits for the accident to happen and then they report that they have arrested the owner of the vehicle. I did not mince my words, but I told them that, that was nonsense. How can we lose the lives of 55 Kenyans and then the next thing they do is to arrest the owner of the vehicle? What we should be asking ourselves is - that is exactly what we asked even in the previous case - how is a vehicle driven from Nairobi overloaded, without insurance, and all other faults and passes more than 15 roadblocks up to Fort Ternan and nobody asks a question. This is exactly what we asked when children perished on Garissa Road; there was a road block a few kilometres away. How can a school bus pass there at night against the laid down regulations and nobody notices it? Recently, there was a move by a few players and stakeholders to ensure that there is regulation, retesting and further instruction of PSV drivers by bringing in a new code in driving schools. A few players went to court and managed to obtain an order for the threshold for qualifying Public Service Vehicle (PSV) drivers be raised. This is where we have to firmly put our foot down. The police officers who were on the road at the time when that bus passed there, should be brought to book. Lastly, one week ago, I was driving on the route to Eldoret and there was a boda"
}