HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 135980,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135980/?format=api",
"text_counter": 223,
"type": "other",
"speaker_name": "",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": null,
"content": "to remove that person. I want to plead with hon. Members to bear with us, because we need roads. In respect of those people who have encroached on land that has been fully paid for by the Government for purposes of road construction â and those people have occupied it using other means â I appeal for support from hon. Members of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have plans to do more roads as follows: Eldoret-Webuye- Malaba, which will conclude works on the Northern Corridor, leading to our border with Uganda. It is very important for trade between Kenya and Uganda. It is a very important connectivity that we need. We have plans to do the Kitale-Nedabau Road, which will connect us with Southern Sudan. We have plans to connect ourselves with Ethiopia. Therefore, we are negotiating for money for the completion of the road project from Merile all the way to Moyale. We have other roads like Rangâala-Siaya-Bondo, Homa Bay-Mbita, Eldoret- Chavakali-Kapsabet, which is currently being re-carpetted to give comfort to motorists before we do a total overhaul of it. We have the Bondo-Migori-Owindi Road, whose contract we recently advertised. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to indicate that 93 per cent of the Northern Corridor Roads project, covering between Mombasa and Malaba, have already been rehabilitated. The Mau Summit-Kericho-Kisumu Road project is awaiting a letter from the World Bank. It will be next. It will connect Mau Summit, Kericho, Kisumu and Kisian. It includes a bypass to be done in Kisumu. I have already said that rehabilitation of the Timboroa-Eldoret-Malaba Road project is awaiting award of the contract. Once that is done, the contractor will report on site and construction work will start. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are also looking at Nairobi. We would want to make sure that congestion in our City is brought down. So, we intend to undertake a project to decongest Nairobi through the following measures: construction of the Eastern and Northern bypasses, that I have already alluded to, construction of Nairobi Urban Toll Roads Concession is now in progress, improvement of Thika Road, improvement of the road section between the JKIA-Gigiri as well as Airport Road. That includes studies that are underway to introduce dedicated lanes, so that there will be busses ferrying passengers directly from one point to another, avoiding traffic jams on our roads. This has been done elsewhere. You may have noticed that I was out in Colombia and Mexico to do a study on similar road networks and, therefore, deliver our people to work and from work on time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will continue to support the Kazi kwa Vijana Initiative. The Ministry has been allocated Kshs800 million that has already been expended. We are expecting more money that we believe will support young people in our countryside. The project will also disengage them from activities that may not be acceptable in our land. More importantly, it will give them income for their survival. As I have said, the Ministry will continue with the Roads 2000 Programme, which is also labour intensive. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have challenges in the execution of our mandate. These include encroachment on our road reserves. Again, I am pleading with hon. Members to give us support on that particular issue, so that we may be able to expand our roads without engaging ourselves in unnecessary squabbles with members of the public."
}