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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) took the Chair]"
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"content": "First, goods take several weeks to move between Nairobi and our neighbouring countries. The snarl-up leads to loss of man-hours and fuel. That has an effect on the environment and, generally, on economic development. A dual carriageway will ensure that goods between Kenya and Uganda move at record speed and therefore spur economic development between the two countries. It will promote industrialisation. Kenya, as you all know, is the hub of industrial growth in this region. There is a serious problem when lorries take two to three weeks to move between Nairobi and Kampala or Mombasa and Nairobi. This affects development of our country. Building trunk roads between Mombasa, Nairobi, and Busia should have been completed about five years ago reason being even the port gets congested because of this single lane road. There are a number of accidents and a lot of property and lives lost. If you quantify the cost of lack of trunk roads on the economy it is quite huge. This House should come up with a very clear policy paper through this Motion. That is on how to ensure trunk roads are constructed across major towns and cities in this country. Secondly, we also need to know that accidents occur because of traffic snarl-ups, frustrations and very narrow roads. Huge trucks and small vehicles collide as result of fatigued drivers who have been on the road for more than 24 hours. The trip would ideally have taken them six or seven hours. That would have solved the problem. It is important for this House to come up with a very clear resolution to the Ministry of Roads, Transport and Public Works to give us the way forward on how to develop several dual trunk roads that link northern Kenya to Ethiopia through Moyale all the way to Turkana, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and even Somalia. All these roads will change our country’s economy. Several of my colleagues have talked about trunk roads across the world. In World War II and through the Marshall Plan, the then US Foreign Secretary of State, George Marshall, transformed Europe just by constructing huge trunk roads across the devastated World War II states. Similarly, Kenya has very good farmlands but most of the produce does not reach market on time. Avocados, coffee, sugar, vegetables et cetera, cannot reach markets on time because our roads are very narrow. Therefore, trucks take forever on the roads. 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": "In fact, the cost of not constructing these trunk roads or dual carriageways is higher than constructing them. Saying we do not have money will in one way or another affect us. By the time we construct a dual the road all the way to Busia and Kisumu, fish farmers in Lake Victoria and Lake Turkana will have most of their market in Nairobi, Eldoret and large cities. At times you will find that fish reaches Kampala before it gets to us. That makes their cost of fish cheaper than ours. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we should come up with resolutions to this Motion and ask the State Department to develop policies on timelines and clear programmes. Let us give timelines if we are going to start with Nairobi-Mombasa and Nairobi-Malaba. For instance, we can say that we will be done with that in two years. Thereafter, we can proceed to another trunk road or dual carriageway from North Eastern all the way to Wajir and indicate the timelines. Similarly, the one through Kisii-Isebania to Mwanza will open up our country. This is the best Motion that Hon. Gitau brought this morning. Through procedure, we need to write a clear paper that we can transmit to relevant sectors as a House. In finishing, we have three State agencies. That is the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). I would like to indicate to Members that they should ensure the roads these agencies construct give value to Kenyans. I have been moving around the city lately. The roads are in bad shape. Investors will never come if the roads are in bad shape. It will be a problem for tourists and all other investors who want to establish factories et cetera . When they decide to construct a road, it should last more than 15 years before repairs. At times, a road is constructed and you see some repairs after two years. It is quite embarrassing. It is time we needed to be responsible as leaders and engineers. Additionally, the cost of putting up these roads are through the roof. It is not like in other countries. We are all in this world. The cost of constructing a road in this country and constructing the same road with the same specification in a neighbouring state cannot be different. We really need to come up and style up on some of the issues. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support. Thank you."
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"content": " Where has Hon. Wamuchomba gone? She has left? Hon. Keynan, go ahead. Hon. Members, you will all have opportunity to contribute."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is a very important Motion. First of all, let me appreciate..."
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"content": " Before you proceed, can I just recognise the persons in the Public Gallery? I had hoped somebody from the Maasai area would give a word of encouragement to the students from Olkejuado, but that never happened. I want to welcome students from Kagondo Secondary School in Ndaragwa, Nyandarua County. I request Hon. Faith to put in a word of encouragement to both the students from Olkejuado and the students from Kagondo Secondary School in Ndaragwa."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Faith Gitau",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I welcome the students from Kagondo Secondary School in Ndaragwa Constituency where I was born. So, I know the school very well. They perform very well academically. I welcome them here. This is where laws are made. I know some of you will join us very soon. Welcome. Thank you very much."
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"content": " You are welcome. Hon. Keynan, proceed. 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": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I appreciate Hon. Faith Gitau for this great Motion. I also want to say that this Motion is a product of Hon. Faith's understanding of the history, infrastructure, and dynamics of the Republic of Kenya. I do know our forefathers, the people who fought jealously for the independence of this sovereign State, aimed to create one mind-set and one country called Kenya. Over the years, different groups under the privileged leadership of this country have used their positions to entrench regionalism, tribalism, and biological nationalism instead of patriotism and nationalism. This idea is very good. I also want to take you back to the provisions of Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965, which you have ably referred to, which will continue to remain in my subconscious until we see a different mind-set from what we are seeing right now. I am glad that the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party has also alluded to this, the mind-set that appreciates Kenya in its entirety— the mind-set under the Broad-Based Government. This Paper, which was used from 1965 until the promulgation of the current Constitution, had three things in mind. Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965, titled African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya, was a key Government policy that outlined the framework for Kenya's development with a focus on promoting African socialism and social justice. The Paper aimed to reduce poverty, ignorance and diseases. On the contrary, it entrenched poverty, tribalism, poverty and abuse of power in different parts of the Republic of Kenya. This Bill is coming at a great time under the current Constitution. Having appreciated my good friend, when she brings the Bill, I will move an amendment on it to read “expansion of all roads”, and “not all major roads.” Some of us do not have major roads. We are struggling to have a road."
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