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    "id": 1490608,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I believe that county governments, being governments that are closer to the people, if they have these funds, they will serve our people with the necessary access that is needed. Let me come back to my community. Ndhiwa Constituency is a constituency that majorly has black cotton soil. Our roads are pathetic because the trailers and lorries from the Ndhiwa Sukari Industry hardly leave our roads in a state in which we can use them well. If you leave the main road that is tarmacked from Rodi Kopany to Sori Town, when it rains in Ndhiwa Constituency, you can hardly get any road that we are comfortable with. Money has been given to KeRRA and yet, we have no access roads in Ndhiwa Constituency. I would be happy if this money was used for its intended purpose. Some of the roads that are in a pathetic state include the Ongeng to Kodiera route, a road that mainly serves sugarcane farmers. The roads are not limited to Ongeng to Kodiera Road. We have the Mirogi or Opapo Road and the Ndhiwa-Pala Road. We also have the Ndhiwa Sidede Road. We have the Meranga Gaena Road. We have the Kowondak-Riat Road that mainly takes you to the actual industry, that is, the Ndhiwa Sukari Industries. We have the Marindi-Konyango-Rabuol Road. We have the Kalamende-Osani Road. I am just mentioning a few of those roads. My constituency, that is Ndhiwa, is suffering because of a lack of roads, which is worsened by the use of the road by heavy lorries from the Sukari Industries. I support this because if the county governments are going to handle these funds for the improvement of the roads, then other people from my community will be looking up to the upgrading of these roads. Having been in the Senate, I know that sometimes, the Senate is only so important to the extent to which we fight for funds to go to the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want these funds to go to the county governments. In any case, the new Constitution envisaged a situation where we would only have two levels of government running development funds, the national and county government. If these funds from Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) can be handled by the county governments, then I am happy that from my sub-county, we will be seeing our roads constructed."
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