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    "id": 1232693,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wanted your indulgence to raise one or two concerns on the Statement that has been laid on the Table by the Chairperson of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations and the Chairperson of the Committee on Roads and Transport. First, I would have expected the Chair of Roads and Transport, although time caught up with him, to tell us the status of Mombasa Road, repair of the lower deck of Mombasa Road after building of the Expressway. I have heard and seen in the media that the Ministry of Transport, Roads and Infrastructure has indicated that they want to do the repairs. You are aware that there are ongoing rains in the country, and as a result, Kenyans who use the lower deck of Mombasa Road or the old Mombasa Road experience a lot of inconvenience because when it rains the drainage is poor. You remember that the road is now thin. Therefore, I would request that the Chairperson of the Committee on Roads and Transport gives the House a timeline on when that lower deck, underneath the Expressway will be repaired before the lapse of the rainy season, so that Kenyans are no longer inconvenienced. Second and last is on the issue of national security, defence and foreign relations. I was keenly listening to the Chair when I was coming to the Chamber and really wanted to get to know whether the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government is in the process of opening more registration centres. We had asked to have immigration centres in the North Rift and Kisumu because Kenyans, especially from Nandi and the North Rift region, are forced to go all the way to Kisumu to get renewal of Visa or get a passport, when the Eldoret office was closed. The Eldoret office is temporarily functioning. I wanted to know whether the Eldoret office will be reopened for the convenience of the people of Nandi, Uasin Gishu and the North Rift. Finally, you remember birth certificates, especially for parents who are registering their children for Class Eight and death certificates for purposes of succession. It is good that you are a lawyer and you understand the importance of birth certificates, especially in succession. Where I come from, we only have two registration centres in Kapsabet Town, that is, Emgwen Sub-county and Nandi Sub-county, and it serves the entire six sub-counties in Nandi."
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