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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in sharing and passing our condolences to the families. As the people of Kericho, we feel sad about the issue especially in light of the fact that it happened in our county. That is a road that I am too familiar with. I use it almost every weekend, including the previous one. On every occasion you drive down the road, you can see that it is a deathtrap or disaster waiting to happen yet the authorities and those who are supposed to take decisions, including us as Senators and legislators are doing nothing. It is quite unfortunate, as somebody has already pointed out, that as legislators, we have reduced ourselves to condolences passers only despite the fact that as Parliament, it is within our powers to summon some of the people that have been professionally negligent and led to the loss of lives. When I woke up and heard about the accident, among the first people that I called was the contractor who constructed the road, a gentleman that I know well. When I called him, he told me something that is extremely shocking. I told him that the road he constructed had killed over 50 people. I went ahead to remind him that it is because the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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