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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Hon. (Dr) Gideon Ochanda, the Member for Bondo."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When we look at what is before us today deeply, we realise that there is a general problem. It is a big one in terms of where the rain started beating us. This is the first question we need to address as a country. It is either our culture or our blood and the way we have been raised. There is a problem. The problem is that we do not value life. What is happening in this country in the name of road accidents would be a crisis in many countries, yet we look at it as the order of the day. It happens and it is now too much. We are losing too many lives. The problem is that we do not value lives and that includes the people who do infrastructure development, drivers, and whoever is a road user in any sense. They all do not value life. There is a general problem in how we do things. We do things in a careless manner not considering whether it will make us lose lives or not. That is what we need to revisit as a country. What is it that we need to do to get back to valuing human life? We are not going anywhere if we do not value life. On the road, you will see a matatu recklessly passing by you and the next question you ask is whether people really value life. We ask that question through and through anytime we are on the road. Matatu drivers behave the same. The police behave the same whether in Kibwezi or Busia. The pikipiki guys behave the same. All of them have a bad behaviour that is common across the country. What is it that we need to do? As a country, we need to look back and see exactly how to start some exercise where we value life. I do not think there is anything we will be doing if we do not value life. If you are a driver who values life, definitely, you will observe road signs. You will be very careful with what you do. You will also not be looking out for the police to tell you that you are speeding. You do not drive at a speed of 160 kilometres an hour simply because the police cannot see you. We need to ask ourselves if it is necessary. For whom are you doing it? For whom are we driving? We must ask ourselves these questions. When on the wheels of a car, we must first know we are driving for ourselves. You will not value life of any other person if you do not value your life; you will not value the life of the third person. This is exactly what we are seeing. We are witnessing this thing day in, day out. We can chronologise accidents. A week or day does not pass without accidents happening involving huge trucks parked along the roadside. A week or hour does not pass without a matatu hitting or killing people. One can track how these accidents happen, like what happened the other week. It happened that in just a week school buses got involved in accidents. The frequency was too much. What was happening? Is it something we want to ask the schools? I am not too sure whom exactly we want to ask. In that week, only buses of learning institutions were getting involved in accidents. Why? Again, it is always the trucks. Why are trucks causing accidents? These things are identifiable. We can isolate them and work on them, including designing and constructing good roads. In my view, we need to start valuing life because if we do not, we will not be safe anywhere in this country."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Hon. Yegon, the Member for Bomet East."
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"content": " Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Adjournment Motion. It is of national importance because even as we are debating it, the President has just unveiled the National Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028 this morning at the KICC. He was talking about the same issue of mitigating road carnage in this country. Road accidents in this country happen largely because there are too many challenges on our roads, including how we drive on the roads."
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"content": "First, the police need to up their game. They do not check all vehicles, including motorcycles. Most of the vehicles driven on our roads do not have working parking, break and hazard lights. I do not know what the police officers check on the roads. They should be making The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "impromptu checks to make sure that all those lights and wipers are working in all the vehicles moving on our roads."
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"content": "There is a requirement for motorcycles to have their headlights on during the day and at night. However, in Kenya, motorcyclists do not have their headlights on during the day. That contributes to accidents on our roads. When a motorcycle is being rode without the headlights on, it is hard to identify that it. It is like a person walking on the road. This has to be made mandatory."
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"content": "On the issue of helmets being used by motorcycle riders, it is hard to find a rider putting on a helmet, leave alone passengers who are never given helmets. Riders carry excess passengers. They can carry up to four passengers and if you include the rider, it makes them five passengers on one motorcycle. That is against the law. A motorcycle has to carry one person. Most of the vehicles that stall on the roads do not have the reflective triangle hazard signs that guide oncoming traffic to deter accidents. This is something that needs to be checked. The NTSA and the traffic police need to make sure that this is checked. Drunk-driving in Kenya has become very rampant. We need to have strict laws so that people are put behind bars when found drunk-driving. The famous “Michuki rules” need to be brought back. During Michuki’s time people were disciplined. They put on safety belts in their vehicles and observed all the rules that were put in place. If you drive on the highways and dual carriage ways, you will find heavy vehicles keeping right instead of keeping left when they are not overtaking. They block the roads and that causes accidents at times. I submit and congratulate the Mover, Hon. Oscar Nabulindo, for bringing this important Motion."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Hon. John Waluke, the Member for Sirisia."
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute on this very important Motion. I want to thank Hon. Oscar Nabulindo for bringing this Motion. As a country, we have lost very many people within a very short time. This year, we have lost 1,300 people within a span of only three months. I suggest that the Minister for Roads and Transport, Hon. Murkomen adopts the “Michuki rules.” Kenyans are notorious. They test the system. The Minister should be firm on the truck rules. During Michuki’s time, trucks could not move during the night. Trucks and school buses should be stopped from moving from 6:00 p.m. School buses have killed too many students on our roads because of careless driving. Sometimes, visibility at night is not good, yet vehicles are allowed to move. If these rules will not be adopted, we will lose many people as a country. I hope the police and the NTSA are going to work. Enforcement officers have not been working. Sometimes we just see them talking on phones instead of working. You cannot stop vehicles and talk on the phone at the same time, the way our Kenyan traffic police do. The Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras must be put on all roads, especially along tarmacked roads all over the country. We should adopt the traffic system in Europe and the USA where traffic police do not put road blocks on roads. There are no road blocks mounted by traffic police, but they have put CCTV cameras everywhere on their roads. If you make a mistake, say, speeding, the traffic police will follow you. The cameras will also detect if you are drunk and you will just notice the traffic police officers following you with either a motor bike or a police chase car. Their police vehicles are not obvious like ours here. They look more like private cars. They are used to monitor their roads. That is what we need to adopt. Recently, I lost three boys who live near me. They were crashed by a truck and we could not identify them. When I was giving my condolence, I said that there were two who I did not know and yet they were my neighbours. They were crashed by a truck. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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