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"content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker, Sir. This is a very a very important Motion. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a different view. The roads that have been made by China Roads and Bridges Corporation are excellent. If you go to the rural areas, like our leader said, maintenance of roads is a problem once the floods come. I have a suggestion. We have the cabro technology that has come in. A cabro manufacturing machine from China or India costs Kshs5 million. So, the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) could buy these machines. If you currently buy cabro, it costs Kshs1,100 per square metre but if you manufacture the same on your own, you will do so at Kshs600 per square metre. You save 40 per cent. Maintenance of cabro road is cheaper. If one part is bad, you remove it and do it again. It has a lifespan of 50 years. It depends on how many tons of weight load you want. If you use your own CDF resources to purchase this machine, you will employ your youths. I am ready to share the idea with hon. Members. Definitely, that is going to be my pilot project in Embakasi. I have already done some research. I am already getting some quotations from India and China. Most importantly, if we are talking of the cost of road construction going to a million shillings per kilometre and then the rains come, and considering the substandard work that is done by our local companies – if we want to give the works to China Road Corporation I have no problem – we are not addressing this issue. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am putting this forward on behalf of seven or eight constituencies, your constituency included. From Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Kasarani and to Babadogo Road, there is serious need for road reconstruction. If you look at Mbagathi Way, Langata and Waiyaki Way, you will appreciate that dual carriage ways have been done. We are losing a lot of money in terms of time and fuel. I need your assistance with the Members of Parliament who border this constituency. It is only eight kilometres long. Looking at Outering Road, apart from the Taj Mall which has come up on the roadside, everybody has kept away. If we dedicate resources to the reconstruction of this road, from JKIA and do four kilometres each year, believe me, the traffic jam will ease. The hon. Member has brought a Motion which is more related to roads in rural areas. Go to Mukuru kwa Njenga and Mukuru kwa Ruben, the roads are bad. At times of emergencies, especially at night, we find that we have no roads. So, I hope that this resolution will also cover slums. I would love to have slums in Kibra, Mukuru, Embakasi, Kayole and Maili Saba, covered. If we sit down in a different place, I will give hon. Members a solution with the cabro-making machines. Let us not buy cabro from people who are out to make money. Let us manufacture them ourselves, employ our own people and develop the county. Let us put importance to Outering Road. Let us give notice to those buildings which are on the road. Let us now join together as Nairobi Members of Parliament and do Outering Road."
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