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    "id": 1129131,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129131/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "I would like to see the engineers who get into this position prove to Kenyans that the roads sector is better managed because they understand the core business of roads. Unfortunately, that has not been quite demonstrated. The cost per kilometre is still very high in this country whether we are talking about murram or tarmac roads. These are some of the things we need to keep interrogating and I am sure the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing will help us interrogate why we have roads in other countries being done at a fraction of the cost we do ours. I know terrains are different, but there is something we need to identity in order to explain why our roads are very expensive to build. Worse still is that even after we spend so much money in construction of roads, two years down the line we have potholes all over. My neighbour, the Hon. Kwenya, and I have a road from the Flyover to Njambini. It has been done about four times. It was re-done recently, but within six months, it is full of potholes. The road from Njambini all the way to Ol Kalou was done in 2007/2008 and it is still intact yet the one that has just been done is full of potholes! Those are some of the things we need to challenge our DGs and engineers to tell us what exactly causes that kind of situation. We use a lot of public money to do these roads. If we do a road, but before it is even used it has potholes and the contractor comes in to do some spot fixing, then there is a fundamental problem in terms of the base. I am not an engineer, and so, I do not understand how these things happen, but I believe that when a road is done, it should withstand a certain test of time."
}