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    "id": 993989,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "me a document, which I have forwarded to the Chair. They held a meeting yesterday with authorities from both sides. You can see it in WhatsApp, where I have posted. The drivers, as the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Orengo, has said are going on strike and they say that their grievances include - (1) Stigmatization and harassment in Uganda. (2) Insecurity in Uganda. (3) Multiple testing for the COVID-19 in Kenya and Uganda. (4) Lack of sanitized facilities and areas of rest, and most of these areas are apart. They say that they have agreed the following, and this will help the Chair to follow up quickly - (1) Accept certificates from either country, which is what Sen. Wetangula is saying. (2) To improve the security of drivers in both countries. Sometimes they ask the drivers to leave the trucks and hand them over to other drivers within the next country, and that cannot work. (3) To get test results in six hours, and we have seen the mobile kits. It is working at the Taveta-Holili Border, and it is now going towards the side of Namanga. We need it in Uganda too. (4) The infrastructure at the parking area needs to be improved. Sen. Wetangula and the Chair know it since they have been there. (5) For communication, they have agreed that both authorities of Kenya and Uganda should open a WhatsApp group with the Truckers Association, so that these quick issues can be done. I am also informed of the bad behavior of the Governor of Machakos, where each truck there has to pay Kshs11, 200 to get their number plates once they have been removed. I have seen those receipts, and it is illegal. The Governor of Uasin Gishu has also started doing the same thing; that now in Eldoret, they are removing the number plates and charging. By the time a truck leaves Mombasa and gets to Malaba, how many times will they be charged? It is very urgent. Chairman, kazi kwako."
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