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    "id": 912889,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nimrod Mbai",
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        "legal_name": "Nimrod Mbithuka Mbai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to add my voice to the Motion by Hon. Osoro. We all reside in this country and know the rate of deaths and maiming caused by road accidents. This calls for some serious action. We can tell the disparity between the rates of accidents in Kenya and other countries such as our neighbours in Tanzania and other countries with more vehicles and worse roads than us. This tells us that there is a social problem we need to fix. As the Motion proposes the introduction of training in road safety and pedestrian use of roads in the curriculum of primary schools, secondary schools and colleges will give our children and every Kenya an opportunity to get socialised in road safety from early ages. This is the only way of curbing the unnecessary challenges we have on our roads. It is alarming and the Government has tried from the Michuki rules to the very recent ways of kneejerk cracking down of road users on the wrong side of the law, but this has not worked. The inculcating of this culture in our kids from early stages in their life through a Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) programme in our education system will help. We have seen the Government introducing free secondary education and paying or giving loans to technical training colleges. The cost of getting a driving license is far above a normal youthful person in this country. A young man who has just finished his Form Four and attained 18, 19 or 20 years would like to get a driving license but the parents cannot afford to pay for him. Maybe he would like to ride a boda boda or drive a Probox to earn a living, yet such a man cannot afford the fees of a driving school. In the same Motion because the Government has provided free secondary education and technical education, we should add driving skills to be included in the free programmes being given by the Government. This is reasonable because 90 per cent of the young men out there riding boda bodas or driving a Probox went through the free secondary school the other day. So, in the same spirit they should go through a free or Government paid driving programme and get a driving license. With the culture of road safety training from the early age and also proper training to get a driving license at an affordable cost or one which has been taken care of by the Government, I 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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