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    "id": 969311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is an area in which I am very passionate about. I used the ferries across the Likoni Channel when I was a student in Mombasa and I use them to date. You would simply cross on the ferry back and forth. It was safe. Each mounting cost Kshs1. It was a lot safer. I think a lot more has happened. One of it must be that there is total lack of ferry safety inspection by agencies that can decommission the use of a ferry if it is not seaworthy. I am beginning to wonder. The ferries have been there for a very long time. Mombasa has been the centre of our maritime engineering. Mombasa is also the place that includes the Kenya Navy engineering component. It is located there. Is it not possible that we can assemble ferries in Kenya for which we can guarantee quality and safety? Should we always rush to Dubai and get reconditioned ones or just old and used ferries? I really think we should step up. We have just strengthened the Kenya Maritime Authority and set up additional institutions. We want to have our shipping lines, but we cannot build a ferry that crosses the Likoni Channel as we look at other options. I think it is sad when we see the kinds of actions that have occurred. First, it looked like some of it was nearly willful neglect. Two, they have stated that coxswains and others do not have the experience. In the old days, it would not set off until vehicles were safely inside and the rump was turned up to stop vehicles from falling off like the saloon car which rolled back and killed that innocent lady and her innocent daughter. That means basic safety measures were not being taken into account. Is there is any form of punishment for those who are operating the ferries when they are that careless? Was anybody, for example, as a result of the last one, taken to court for carelessness? Nothing like that is happening. We are leaving it all to God. I know God is important, but we know God also only helps those who help themselves. God is not going to stop a vehicle from falling into the water no matter how much you pray. That is only going to happen when you take the required safety measures."
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