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    "id": 881825,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, one of the indicators of performance in all ministries, departments and agencies is disability mainstreaming. This country has made many strides in realising the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. What is pulling us down is the chaotic matatu industry. We need to regulate it, especially in line with the Persons with Disabilities Act of 2003. If the rest of the persons with disability are suffering the most, it is also pathetic that we have given authority to a collection of people, a gang, to regulate the industry – to know which prices to charge; to know which route is expensive; and, which road has potholes. Fare is nowadays increased depending on the increase of potholes. You can wake up and be told: “Potholes have increased in your route. So, the fare today has increased two or three times”. The fare from Narok to Nairobi is at times Kshs350. Sometimes you are told it is Kshs700. Why? It is because there are rains or because there is a graduation ceremony in the University of Nairobi (UoN) and so, there is a lot of traffic towards Nairobi. We cannot allow a certain category of people who are there to make profits at the expense of our citizens. It is the citizens who elected Members of this House which is supposed to make laws and policies which protect all persons in this country, including those with disability. Michuki tried. There was sanity in the industry during his time. If there was Michuki who brought sanity to the matatu industry as an individual, this House has 349 Members. If the 349 of us cannot bring sanity to the industry over which Michuki almost succeeded, we will have failed as a House. This is a Motion around which this House should come together and support. That is so that it is implemented in time to make sure the matatu industry is regulated and put on line so that we do not have chaos. Even if we have to protect our citizens, we have also to protect the investors because they employ thousands of our youth. We should protect them and ensure they do not make exorbitant profits at the expense of commuters. This House must protect both of them, the investors as well as the commuters. Both are our electorates. They are looking upon this House to regulate things and make laws that will protect all of them. Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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