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    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "get poor contractors working on these roads. Somebody with management skills and experience is likely to even help identify those contractors who have good engineers and who can do a good job. Tarmacking takes quite some time. There are quite a number of roads now lost in counties. This include Nairobi County, between KERRA, KURA and all relevant institutions. When we make amendments, we should not just extend to KERRA and KeNHA, but to all bodies so that they have a similar standard; whether they are doing town roads, rural roads or highways, but it should be uniform. I believe the chairman is knowledgeable in this area, because he is qualified and has also been a long serving Member of Parliament. He would be able to guide the Committee so that when we come to Third Reading, they are amendments we have agreed on. We would like this Bill to go faster so that it can be implemented as soon as possible. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other problem is that there have been so many active CEOs for such a long time. A good example is the CEO for CDF. It took us long time because of political imaginations to be able to appoint the CEO of CDF. It is a similar problem with many organisations, including the ones under roads. When we pass this law, I believe it will easily bring that matter to rest. One of the most difficult bodies to deal with is KeNHA. KERRA is very cooperative with Members of Parliament. KeNHA has many people running it or engineers who believe are smarter than the Members of Parliament. They do not need us yet we are the ones who appropriate these laws and then follow them up. They become a stumbling block to our politics. I agree that somebody with 15 years’ experience knows how Parliament operates. He is also experienced on how the Ministry works and is even much better, if he or she has a degree in management because he or she would be able to follow and understand the matter much faster than somebody who has a simple degree, any master’s degree or poor experience. Therefore, this Bill is a major improvement on what has been happening. We are all curious as Members of Parliament to see many new roles as possible in our constituencies. That puts you in a very good pedestal politically. Some of these things have not been implemented in Parliament for many years. If you are a serving Member of Parliament and you are able to deliver a tarmacked road no matter how small it is, obviously, the constituency would be very happy. Some of the roads that are being graded, because of rains and the situations, they have to be graded every other day because they become rough quickly. I am sure members of public in our constituencies are keen and usually very happy when you can improve a tarmacked road. It also gives you a legacy similar to the one President Kibaki had with Thika Super Highway, and the one President Uhuru Kenyatta is going to have with the express road being constructed now heading to the airport; thus reducing jam in that regard. It will leaves a permanent legacy. As Members of Parliament, we look forward to leave a permanent legacies. When you are a Member of Parliament and a tarmacked road is done in your constituency, it remains with your name and leaves the people with a good feeling. They will keep blessing you for good and long leadership because of making their roads much better. These institutions are very important. They are also allocated lots of money under budget. The bigger the budget the better it would be when you have somebody with special skills in management. This is so that efficiency can be seen in the construction of roads. The time taken and the duration can be faster. Tendering sometimes takes a long time. A times, there are challenges in this particular area that tendering process ends up on appeal. The moment it turns so, it delays. When you have good managers, they will manage better the process of tendering which goes with experience. This is so that whoever wins a tender fully qualifies and even the other parties are satisfied that the tender 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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