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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, ignore him. Everyone knows it is a fact."
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"content": "Yes!"
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Mau roads in Central Kenya are consuming 49.651 per cent of this year’s Budget. You must stop being selfish."
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we must put our eyes on the Ministry of Roads and Transport. The Cabinet Secretary agrees that he has a challenge in the Ministry because the officers inflate figures. He gave an example of constructing foot bridges. They have donors to support building the foot bridges but when he asked for the figures for the construction, they were inflated four times. We have a problem with the Ministry. It is rotten. It is letting us down. A road is built but hardly one month later, even before it is commissioned, it has potholes. How do we clear the contractors and issue them certificates of completion? As a House, we must be deliberate about this. I call upon the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure to dig deeper now that the Cabinet Secretary has acknowledged that there is a lot of corruption in the Ministry. We must deal with corruption. As we talk about trunk roads, we must be deliberate as leadership and Parliament. Some roads help to de-congest the major roads. I come from close to the border and we are so disadvantaged because of trucks. At times they line up to Eldoret. So, if we focus on the interconnecting and inter-county roads, like the Mungatsi-Mianga-Kimaeti-Malakisi Road, we will de-congest our major roads, which will help us. Additionally, we must focus on the railway because it will de-congest our roads. We must be deliberate and de-politicise allocations to, and routing of the railway. The mzungu came to Kenya and put a ruler from Mombasa to Malaba. They decided that having a railway from Mombasa to Nairobi to Eldoret to Bungoma and Malaba would be economically viable 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": "but because of politics and economic pressure, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) being constructed through Mau Summit has to turn and to Kericho and Kisumu. I have no problem with that but let us look at the viability and prioritise what will add economic value to us. Good roads reduce accidents. If we have dual carriageway roads in this country, we will have fewer accidents. For example, Thika Super Highway is dual and the number of accidents on that road are fewer."
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, protect me from a heckling Member. This is an honourable House."
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"content": "There are less accidents on the dual Thika Super Highway than they are on the Nairobi- Eldoret-Malaba Highway. That road has become a massacre of human lives. That is why we support this Motion. If we deal with this issue, we will save lives."
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"content": "A lot of our rural people also die on their way to hospitals. The roads are not good and it takes them too long to reach hospitals. That is why I support Hon. Faith’s Motion. She should expand its scope. The Motion also speaks to the image of our country. If tourists come and use good roads, we will be advantaged. Some time back, I flew on Kenya Airways and the captain told me that we had a pothole at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). As pilots approached the runway to land, they would be advised on the radar that on the left side of the runway, there was a pothole. That taints the image of this country. So, kudos to Hon. Faith. We support her Motion. She should bring a Bill as soon as possible once we approve this Motion, so that we bring sanity to the infrastructural sector of this country. Thank you."
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