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    "id": 912734,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/912734/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Babu Owino",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13325,
        "legal_name": "Owino Paul Ongili Babu",
        "slug": "owino-paul-ongili-babu"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to second the Motion on development and implementation of the curriculum for training students and pupils in schools on road safety. Most road accidents in our nation are caused by careless driving. This is as a result of some drivers who learnt driving through the backdoor or on road signs. You find that in our society that the drivers we bring up, even in the so-called mtaas in our areas are people who go on a squad basis. “Squad basis” means a trained driver or a semi- trained driver driving a matatu and on reaching a particular stage, he leaves it to another person to take over. So, most of the people in our society get trained on such basis. Due to that, there are too many accidents. Deaths that are registered on our roads are too many because of our carelessness. Strict rules are never followed. I, therefore, propose that such training is brought to our pupils at the primary level so that they can do theory, and at the secondary level, they can go through a practical lesson. With that they will grow up knowing… Experience and continuous studying of road rules and regulations will enable us to follow them in the foreseeable future and minimise such road accidents. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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