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    "content": "the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). School children should be put on the train and let the buses go empty and pick them at the points of destination. We are losing too many people on our roads. As the Committee on Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, this is a matter that we will work hand in hand with the Committee on Roads and Transportation to look for answers within specified times because it is embarrassing and sad for us time and time again to keep coming back and saying pole and giving our condolences. As the Senate Majority Leader has said, it is more dangerous to be on a bus in this country today than to be in hospital waiting for treatment. It is so sad. Our hearts go out to the families but let us make sure that we do something about this. We will be talking about this jointly with the Committee on Roads and Transportation. We want to know who specifically is responsible. We have many agencies doing the same work. We have the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), traffic police commandants and counties doing the same kind of work. So, everybody is doing nothing because everyone is shaking off responsibility and putting the same on the other agency. While these people are busy harassing motorists in my County of Nairobi by collecting bribes, they are letting visibly unroad worthy or rickety vehicles pass them on roads. That is why today if a policeman is transferred from Nairobi, they will look for you and beg that they do not be transferred from Nairobi because they just collect money on the roads or chase after people who drink in the estates as opposed to huge---. There are tractors in western region that have no lights at all that people run into. Sen. Wetangula here will tell you that we have tractors with no lights or reflectors on the roads at night yet there are policemen there. If I were the Inspector-General of Police – thank God I am not – I would drive myself and if I see a vehicle that should not be on the road, the person in charge there is fired. What is the cost of life? Is it worth Kshs2,000 or Kshs5,000 that they are bribed? Something must be done."
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