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    "id": 881881,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. While I support this Motion, I can correctly say that Hon. Didmus wants this House to concur with him and resolve that the Government develops policies and implement regulations on the amount of fare to be charged by public service vehicles, so that we can protect customers from exploitation. I agree with my colleagues who have spoken and have indicated that there is disorder and clear chaos in the transport sector. My only concern is how we should go about it. By the way, I am very clear in my mind that the disorder and chaos that we witness in the public sector does not only touch on fares. There are a lot of issues that need to be addressed. There have been attempts to correct some of the issues, but we see immediate lapse after pronouncements on the steps that the Government is trying to take or put in place to correct the problems that we see in the transport sector. We end up, again, in the same situation we were in before. The problem that we see in the public sector has a lot to do with failure by various arms of the Government which are tasked with the responsibility of enforcing the law. We have a lot of laws in place to control the transport sector, but those laws are flouted. The people who are given the responsibility to ensure that they are enforced are either compromised or out of negligence, just ignore the same. So, even before you move to controlling fares or trying to make sure that people pay predictable fares, we can go straight to the amount paid. I think the problem here is predictability. In my view, I think the solution is not about the Government fixing fares. Any country in the world that does not invest properly in organised public transport will definitely have problems. By the way, the effects of a disorganised transport system are so severe on the economy that I think we need to take time and quantify how much we lose in this economy just because of disorganisation. There are simple enforceable regulations that are not being enforced, for example, having functional street lights and drivers respecting the same. Those do not require any other law to be put in place. 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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