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    "id": 1472004,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for that protection. We, as the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, wanted to know what the Kenya Kwanza Government position is on road tolling. Since, we will wake up one day and we hear that here in Nairobi they are going to start tolling Thika Road, for instance, a road that was built using taxpayer’s money and Kenyans have been using these roads all this time. You cannot just wake up one day and start tolling Thika Road or the Southern Bypass. We had proposed to summon the Ministry, so that they come and tell us what the policy position is. However, I was very happy reading in the newspapers this week that out of the public outcry, they have abandoned that path. That they would come up with a new tolling policy for the roads that have been constructed, especially the ones done recently, including the Dongo Kundu Bypass. Mr. Chairman, Sir, we still continue to see the Kenya Kwanza Government insisting on rates that have been declared unconstitutional and un-leviable by the courts in the calculation of the prices of fuel, including this month. We want to know the policy. The people of Dongo Kundu might not be as lucky as the people of Thika Road and the Southern Bypass because that is a fairly new road. If they start off by tolling it, maybe it would be different from the policy. That you allow people to use roads, and then out of the blue decide that you are going to toll those roads. In the response, the Committee must insist that one of the problems we have is no clarity of Government policy. It is not fair for people to be ambushed every day by changes of policy. I wish the Chairperson of the Roads and Transportation Committee was here. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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