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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I send my condolences to the family of the mother and her daughter who lost their lives in that very unfortunate incident. This also shows how we take our work. We have a parastatal that has no other business other than just operating that ferry between the two shores. This kind of a disaster happens, but they are not prepared at all. That shows that there are officers in this country who do not take their work seriously and do not know what they are doing. We, as a Committee, I can remember we were there early last year. We discussed with the KFS and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on what they were doing. At that time, they were talking of getting new ferries from Turkey. It is now almost two years and nothing has been done. They are talking of decommissioning that ferry and it has been on that channel, until it has brought us this unfortunate incident. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Kenyans have to learn to take responsibility. If KFS is still there, they should know that this is a disaster of their making. If you look around that area, there is the Kenya Maritime Authority which deals mainly with the issues around the sea. We also have the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) around there, the Kenya Navy and the Kenya Coast Guards. There must be a coordinating mechanism of all these institutions so that in case of a disaster, they should respond quickly for those who have the facility and the personnel. It is as if there was no coordination. These institutions operate independent of each other. When this disaster happened, KFS did not have a rescue boat or divers or a mechanism of getting all the other into action. That is how the unfortunate incident happened. Up to now, it is as if somebody wants us to forget that we have a mother and child in a vehicle down that channel because there is nothing being done from what we are seeing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are only good at dealing with buying those things. We go and buy sometimes old military equipment, old police helicopters and fighter jets that are even more expensive than new ones. Why should we buy it exorbitantly and bring something that is not serviceable? That is why even the ferries which we are being told are in Turkey, we need to be very serious about them and check what is being procured. Last time when we were there, the KFS, which cannot now even coordinate its own emergency safety issues, was taking of cable cars. I do not know what will happen if we introduce them there. It will be a case of people now dropping into the ocean. We will now be seeing people parachuting into the channel from those cable cars because we will bring in things which will just snap midway and we will find Kenyans going down. They The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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