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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to second the Motion which is very important for Kenyans. We have experienced a lot of traffic and accidents on our roads. We know many Kenyans depend on the roads for businesses, and movement of persons and goods. The implementation of this Motion will help us in reducing the accidents and foster the growth of our country. I beg the House to support this Motion and ensure it is implemented. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I second the Motion."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this Motion by Hon. Faith Gitau on expansion of major roads in the country to dual carriageways. Before I go into the details of the Motion and offer my very sincere support, I take cognisance of the fact that today is Wednesday in the morning. We, as the National Assembly, spare time for private Members' business that includes Bills and Motions. It is very sad to note that Motions and Bills sponsored by Members were put on the calendar and programmed to be debated today, but they failed to turn up. This forced us to step down these Bills and Motions. We would have used that time properly, if they had given notice of their absence. The Clerk of the National Assembly does a very good job to remind every Member early morning or even a day before of the business that will be on the Order Paper. It is available for Members. Members are expected to communicate their unavailability in good time, so that their Motions or Bills are not put in the Order Paper. There are very many Members here who have Motions which have not been scheduled for debate because others are ahead of them. This situation is unacceptable. If you have a Motion or Bill, make yourself available. I am sure Hon. Kajwang’ has a Bill scheduled at a later date. He is a good Member who comes to the House all the time but his Bill cannot find space because others are ahead of him, yet those Members do not come to the Chamber. It is a waste of good and honourable time. We need to discourage Members from this. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we should not only reschedule or defer the business on the Order Paper, but also drop them completely so that they do not appear again. If we do this, Members will know that when they have business on the Floor of the House, they should come to execute it, but not what we see today. I support Hon. Gitau’s Motion. Road network is very important for this nation. For development and economic progress of the nation to occur, we need road network everywhere in the country. We need good roads to ensure that businesses, farmers and economic activities are carried out very well. The situation we have now is one where the good roads that we have are congested. There is a lot of traffic snarl-up in the city. We are probably becoming worse than New York, as we progress. I was on Nairobi Expressway about two weeks ago. I realised that as you look down on the other road, it does not move even for an hour. The Expressway now is becoming even more congested. 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": "We have a problem which we must solve, otherwise, it will stall the progress of this country, especially this City. If this City is locked down by traffic jam, there is no economic activity that will happen. What we do is that we waste man-hours, we waste human resource and capital on the roads because there is traffic snarl-up, especially in the mornings when everybody wants to rush. I want to request that as we move forward as Government, we must, like Hon. Faith Gitau says, have dual carriageways in Nairobi."
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"content": "One of the problems that I have seen is the problem of roundabouts. The more roundabouts you have in this City, the more traffic congestion you have. If you look at the road that goes to Lang’ata, before that roundabout used to be one of the locked-up areas. That roundabout on the Raila Odinga Way going up to Lang’ata used to be locked completely for a whole day because of traffic. When they did the upper pass and the underpass, now it has eased; just a simple bridge that was done there and it eased traffic. I want to request Nairobi City County and the Ministry of Roads and Transport to move with speed to remove the roundabouts in this country that cause huge traffic jam as we prepare to dual our roads. As I speak about roads here in Nairobi and other towns where there is major traffic snarl-up, on the Nairobi-Mombasa Road, before you get to Machakos, you spend like four hours in Nairobi. You go to Machakos and then probably spend four hours and you are almost in Mombasa. Then when you get to Mombasa, you get the jam again so you spend 16 hours on the road just because you cannot leave Nairobi faster and you cannot get into Mombasa faster."
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"content": "I am happy that this Government is considering dualing that road and I think the contract is in the offing to ensure that we dual that road to Mombasa and make the Port of Mombasa efficient. For the Port of Mombasa to be efficient, it requires good road networks. If you do not have good road networks, you will always have delay of goods from the Port. I want to request that we expedite the process of dualing the Mombasa-Nairobi Road so that we can ease business."
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"content": "It is very important to say that agriculture still remains the mainstay of this country. A lot of agricultural activities happen in the rural areas yet these areas have a problem of roads. They are not tarmacked roads nor graded roads. They are just rough earth roads. What we lose in terms of post-harvest losses is colossal because you cannot get your goods to the market because of bad roads. These roads are mostly in the hands of the counties that receive billions of money, not only through the county allocation, but even more special allocations that we vote on this Floor. Governors and county governments do not consider that those roads are more important than the seats, the carpets and the vehicles that they drive around. If they were to open the roads in the rural areas and tarmac them, and ensure that farmers’ products have good access to the market, they would have raised more revenue which they would have used to buy golden seats if they wanted. What they want to do is to buy the seats before they open taps for revenue to come in. One of the best ways to open taps for revenue to come into the counties is to ensure you have access to markets for farm products. I want to request counties that are there to have a target."
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