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    "id": 1341912,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chesumei, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Paul Biego",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this issue of KeRRA roads. I was mesmerised and perturbed that the Cabinet Secretary for Roads gave instructions to the Director-General of KeRRA, who went ahead and instructed the resident engineers of our constituencies to degrade or downgrade the cash that is usually allocated. That is the 22 per cent and the 10 per cent. It leaves me wondering, we being a law-abiding country and him being a law-abiding citizen, who knows that it is in this House where laws are amended and formulated, how did he give an Executive order to take away the mandate of Members of Parliament to reduce the amounts of money allocated for KeRRA roads? The money that we used for the roads of KeRRA vis-a-vis the roads being repaired by the county governments is like day and night. We cannot allow that to happen. The county governments have been in place for the third term now. The KeRRA has existed since inception. The quality of roads that county governments usually construct cannot be equated to the quality of KeRRA roads. So, it is not procedural, it is not good, it is very uncouth for such a thing to happen. We will not allow it. From the constituency that I come from, I want to ensure that those roads are done in good standards using the funds that we have been given through KeRRA. I am surprised that even the roads that county governments are supposed to do have not been done. The little that they do is haphazard. I stand here to oppose and say that the only place that those amendments can be done is on the Floor of the House. I actually call upon the Director-General of KeRRA to be alive to the fact that he would be liable on his own one time. He gave an order for those roads or for the money to be reduced, our county roads committees were called to budget or give proposals for the roads to be done and they were given money less than what this House knows. It is my wish and I believe it is the wish of this House to summon the Cabinet Secretary in charge to come and explain how that would happen without the consent of this House. With those very many or few remarks, I say a big No."
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