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    "id": 1003803,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. First, pole to my good friend, Sen. Cherargei who was involved in a road accident. It is good to see he is on the way to full recovery. The issue that Sen. Cherargei has raised is very important. Roads that are managed my KeNHA are those that are ordinarily home to fast moving vehicles. If you do not have proper markings on our highways, you are certainly being negligent as a body, and I mean KeNHA. That is what is contributing to so many accidents on our highways. On many occasions, I have personally called the Director-General (DG) for KeNHA, Eng. Mudinia, and alerted him to so many contractors who have built very good roads, but left the site before ensuring proper marking and signage. In one incident, I called him when there was an accident at Sironga. That is the Kisii-Nyamira-Ikonge Road. You can imagine you construct a road, put bumps but no signage at all to warn motorists. Somebody hit that bump, the car went up then down and rolled. We must urge the Committee that will be seized of this matter to do a serious audit on whether KeNHA as an Institution conducts inspections on the sites to ensure that before a contractor is released, there must be proper marking of the roads and signage on sites. Where there are bumps, people need to be told and where there are sharp corners, there needs to be signage. I had another issue on Metamaiyo Market where we lost a motor cyclist. You know our young people are engaging in the boda boda business. It is not because they did not go to school. They went to school, but they do not have jobs. Therefore, we should take care of these people. If the economy was to improve tomorrow, we will absorb them into jobs where they can earn a living as salaried Kenyans. May I urgently appeal to the Committee that will be seized of this matter, to do a serious audit on the state of our roads. Where KeNHA is found to be culpable, urgent measures should be put in place to ensure that all our roads are marked. We look primitive when we do fantastic roads, but cannot do such a simple thing as marking them. It is the way somebody said that you give us first class facilities with third class mentality."
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