{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=139966","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=139964","results":[{"id":1416061,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416061/?format=json","text_counter":428,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Section 117(8) as amended agreed to)"},{"id":1416062,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416062/?format=json","text_counter":429,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairman","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" This means that the amendment by Hon. Clive Gisairo, Member for Kitutu Masaba, falls. 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"},{"id":1416063,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416063/?format=json","text_counter":430,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Section 117(9)(a)"},{"id":1416064,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416064/?format=json","text_counter":431,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairman","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" Mover."},{"id":1416065,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416065/?format=json","text_counter":432,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Chairman. I beg to move: THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended— (b) by deleting the proposed amendment to the Traffic Act (Cap. 403), and substituting therefor the following new amendment— Delete the expression “on first conviction to a fine not exceeding two s. 117(9)(a) hundred shillings, and on each subsequent conviction to a fine not"},{"id":1416066,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416066/?format=json","text_counter":433,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"exceeding five hundred shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months” and substitute therefor the expression “on first conviction to a fine of an amount equivalent to ten times the maximum statutory penalty of the offence to which the notification relates, and an amount equivalent to twenty times of the penalty for a second or subsequent conviction: Provided that where a notification relates to two or more offences, the fine under this paragraph shall be based on the offence with the highest penalty under the notification”. This relates to provisions of fines for minor traffic offences. They will be increased from Ksh500 to Ksh500,000. The amendment provides for payment of at least 20 times more for people who are not first-time offenders. They will be required to pay 20 times the maximum penalty payable for the offence which it was provided for. The proviso provides that where the notification relates to two or more offences, the fine under this paragraph shall be based on the offence with the highest penalty under the notifications. I will use the same example of double-parking. If I am charged with double- parking and obstructing traffic, and the penalty for obstructing traffic is Ksh2,000 and the one for double-parking is Ksh1,000, I will be required to pay Ksh2,000. If I do not pay the fines by signing the notification and returning to court or appear in court, then the police will track and charge me. I will be required to pay 20 times the higher of the two penalties. That will be 20 times of Ksh2,000, amounting to a sum of Ksh40,000. This is a deterrent so that we ensure that even the minor traffic offenders pay for their offences. It will also instil traffic discipline. You have seen what happens in cities and most of our roads. People overlap and create four to six lanes on a road that has one to two lanes. This creates a lot of inconveniences and costs many other Kenyans dearly, including ambulances getting stuck on roads. We must bring sanity back in the traffic management of our country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman."},{"id":1416067,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416067/?format=json","text_counter":434,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairman","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" Very well."},{"id":1416068,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416068/?format=json","text_counter":435,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Question of the amendment proposed)"},{"id":1416069,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416069/?format=json","text_counter":436,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairman","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" Yes, Hon. Rindikiri."},{"id":1416070,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1416070/?format=json","text_counter":437,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Buuri, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Chairman, this is a nice amendment. We are currently witnessing serious accidents and traffic offences almost everywhere either by boda boda riders, and private and even official Government vehicles. To control this and restore order and sanity in our roads, I support the amendment. It is even a very lenient fine. It should have been more punitive. It has reached a point where we have to tell Kenyans to do certain things by force. I support this amendment. It needs to be implemented very fast by being signed into law. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. 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"}]}