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    "id": 1129092,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Bill. Roads are very sensitive in the country. From the experience we have gone through in the last 10 years or so, these amendments are important and due. I want to agree with Hon. Kwenya, and I believe the Committee will adopt his proposal. We should strictly adopt Master’s in management. That empowers the engineer, despite 15 years’ experience, to be qualified in management or governance, although governance is a wide field. If somebody has a Master’s degree in management and experience in governance, they will move faster in navigating their way into Parliament for budgetary allocations. On timelines and movement, they would be more efficient. One of the things we have despite allocating money, roads are taking more than three years to be complete. If the DG is serving for five years then he has enough time to complete a certain road. A good example in Makueni County is the road that goes through Kaiti-Makueni Constituency and Kibwezi West Constituency called Ukea-Emali Road. It has taken so many years. One time it was moved from KERRA to KeNHA and they had to redesign, yet we had original designs done by KERRA, and they went back to square zero. When they planned to start, that Financial Year expired, the Board left and the road simply stalled. I am sure it will give us difficult times in the coming election because roads particularly affect a Member of Parliament whether they are KERRA or not. What also has happened, there was reorganisation between counties, KERRA and KeNHA roads. As a Member of Parliament, I also lost very important roads. When they went to counties, they have not been able to maintain them, but the people know that this is the Member’s road. By the time you explain to everybody that it is no longer your responsibility, you have to go and look for those extra money to do a county road to maintain the good perception with constituents. Roads can really mess a Member especially the politics and stuff like that when they are not maintained. These are roads which are mostly not tarmacked. They are regularly maintained and a times, you 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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