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    "id": 1233184,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " I will gladly wind up, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The boda boda motor cycles should not be used on highways. We are not supposed to see them on Kitale-Bungoma Road or Kitale-Eldoret Road, but they are there. We must work with the reality that they are there. We are working on a mechanism of regulation. In the statements I made earlier, you notice I did not focus on the boda boda . I will be coming back with boda boda regulations as a result of the same issue. On the road Hon. Jayne Kihara has mentioned, again, Maela road is a big issue. We had a discussion with the Member and leaders of Nakuru County. As we promised, we are going to do everything possible to ensure that we have resources for the same. Hon. Kosgey has raised an important issue about non-motorised transport (NMT) and persons with disabilities. Again, we will do the same. To answer Hon. Jayne Kihara, I do not think classifying a road as security will change anything because the Ministry of Interior does not have the money to put the road differently. So, it will still come back to us. Let us just find a way of doing the road. It might be even better to do it as an important road for agriculture and economic activities, including the KenGen and Geothermal Development Company (GDC) projects that are going on there. On airport access ramps, I agree with Hon. Kosgey. We will continue with the same. On Hon. CNN’s question, we promise to maintain the road as it awaits the resources for its improvement to bitumen standard. The Member for Mwingi Central, Hon. Gideon’s supplementary Question was on the further improvement of the remaining parts of the roads. The best answer to give you is that we will work on the resources to do so. At least, for the record, we have provided the substantive part of the answer. Funds permitting, we can address other issues. However, as I said, our doors are open. We have not met the Kitui County leadership. When we sit down with them, we will thrash out some of these issues."
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