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    "id": 949768,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": "country to save it from the catastrophe. That speaks a lot in terms of our disaster preparedness coming at a time when we are also expanding the horizon of our maritime transport. In a few months to come, Kisumu City will be carrying out a comprehensive maritime transportation along Lake Victoria to Uganda and Tanzania. If what we have seen in Likoni is anything to go by, where public officers demonstrate absolute dereliction of duty, then we are afraid that in due course we will lose a lot more. If this happened in a developed nation like in Europe or the United States of America, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) responsible for the line departmental and everybody else would have resigned. But, because we are in Kenya, up to this moment, the Cabinet Secretary has not seen it fit to travel to Mombasa to even empathise with the families that have lost their loved ones. I remember that barely three weeks ago, we lost a former president of a South African nation. Even before that country’s government declared a mourning period, our government gave an order for all flags to be flown at half-mast in his honour. Our country was already doing it. Are we much more in love with foreigners to the chagrin of our own nation? Even up to now, we have not heard our President speak about the disaster that happened in Likoni. Are we on our own? That speaks a lot to the welfare of this country in general. I challenge those who are concerned. It is now over 50 hours and we are only saying that we have no enough oxygen to help our divers go deep down to find where the car is stuck. You can only imagine the shrilling wailings from this mother, together with her daughter, in great shock that they were not in a position to send a message or even call any relative. That did not just happen to that family. It can happen to anyone of us. I thought when one gets into a ferry in a car it is only prudent to come out of the car and when it docks then at that point you move into your car and drive it out. That must be made a law. However, even more bizarre is the fact that this ferry did not have an embankment. I thought that once all the cars have moved in; there should be an embankment that comes up so that even if a car slides, then it can still be stopped. This speaks a lot into the welfare and the usage of our ferries. That is not the first accident that is being reported from Likoni ferry. At some point we lost so many more that we even lost the numbers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is something that our Government must carefully look into. Even before the Kisumu maritime transport takes effect, these are fundamental questions that we must ask ourselves as a nation. I thank you for giving me the opportunity."
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