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    "id": 1342379,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1342379/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ruku GK",
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    "content": " Niko hapa. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to first of all congratulate the Chairperson of the Committee for this Report. Those in the Executive have in several instances taken this House for granted. That is a very bad way of working. I want to rebuke with the strongest terms possible the Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works in the Republic of Kenya. In my view, he can only be the one who is issuing these instructions to the Director-Generals of the parastatals under his Ministry to come up with such kind of recommendations. By so doing, he is demeaning the powers bestowed upon this House and its Members – that we cannot oversee the implementation of road works in our constituencies. If such a recommendation is passed, in the next few years, we will see a further decrease of resources allocated to the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), which is extremely critical to development of roads in the constituencies. This is something which needs to be cut at the nip as soon as possible because if we proceed with this trajectory, many parts of our country will be impassable. Hon. Temporary Speaker, at the moment, we have many roads in the constituencies that require routine maintenance. This needs to be done in the most appropriate way. They need murraming, graveling as well as compacting. This can only happen if that money which has been allocated in the past continues in the same way. Actually, in the recommendation of this Report, I thought it was wise to ensure or to call the Cabinet Secretary in charge to come to the Floor of the House and answer some of these questions of the Members. We cannot start talking about the Director-General of KeRRA or other institutions."
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