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    "id": 1129090,
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    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": "there are places where people go hungry. As a House, through the Departmental Committee on Transport, Housing and Public Works, should look at this matter. Money should be directed to where it matters. We should not hear that money is directed to constituencies where roads are not needed or where roads are not as important as where food comes from. I hope that the Director- General of KeRRA will consider and make sure that all the weather roads in Kinangop, which is part of the food basket of this country, are well paved so that we can cure the perennial problem of food shortage. In fact, food security happens to be one of the Big 4 Agenda. On the issue of classification of roads, which is within the purview of KRB, we need to be involved as Members of Parliament. I say this because we have had issues with Class C KeRRA roads being downgraded to county roads. We already know that our county governments do not have the capacity to repair these roads. There is a lot of money that is left with the national government at the hands of KRB. I believe that the best people to be involved in classification of roads, and in the spirit of public participation, are the people who represent the masses. These are the Members of Parliament. I wish to support the Bill. I will propose an amendment so that a holder of the Director- General’s office must have a Master’s degree in either management or governance to guarantee some level of efficiency and understanding in the running of the institution. That should not just be visible in terms of the standards of roads, but in terms of management of the finances allocated to this parastatal. With that, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill but with amendments."
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