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"speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kivinda",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the discussion on the Likoni tragedy. I want to stand with the family and send my condolences to them. It is a big loss and shame to the country. It is now over 72 hours and yet rescue efforts are still going on. Seventy-two hours is a long time. The families of the deceased persons are waiting to get the bodies. As a country, we are also waiting to get a report on what happened. As a country we have failed. In 1993, when I was young, there was a ferry tragedy in the same area. We should have learnt a lesson from that tragedy and mitigate other accidents in the same area. But it is like we have not even done anything about accidents in that area. There is someone who is sleeping on the job. This is the time to fix our issues. We need to do something in that area. I join my colleagues from the coast who are agitated because of this tragedy because the Navy is less than one kilometre away. I remember when I was watching the video; the incident took over 15 minutes. That is enough time for them to come and rescue. There must be a problem because as a country we need to know why this is happening. Again, it is high time we changed the ferry services, structures, operations and the management. I do not see how an accident can happen for 15 minutes and we do not see any effort by Kenya Ferry Services to rescue the two people."
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