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    "id": 1493496,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, if you look at the memorandum and the Bill itself, you will note that the Institute of Surveyors of Kenya, the League of Kenyan Women Voters and Kenyan Association of Tour Operators, have been listed under Schedule 7(1) as organisations that will nominate members to the Board. At the point at which we transacted this business, I remember you and I were in this House. We may not have had regard to the Mwongozo Code, and we may have considered persons who have nothing to do with the roads sub-sector, such as Institute of Surveyors, Kenyan Association of Tour Operators and League of Kenyan Women Voters, who I do not think are a legal entity in the first place to be recognised in legislation. This was a badly drafted Bill at that time. If you cared to look at what was the infamous Finance Bill, you will note that it had these issues as miscellaneous amendments, but you know the fate of the Finance Bill as the court of law decided that it was unconstitutional. To that extent, we had a problem of legislation that we could not midwife these amendments in miscellaneous law. We are now bringing them as a standalone legislation to be able to clean up that Act and the Kenya Roads Board, because these have financial implications. When you have 13 directors, they would have to be paid or facilitated to do their work. When you have 13 directors, there is decisional problems, because they are unable to make decisions where nine people would have made that decision. Hon. Members, this is a straightforward kind of legislation to clean the Kenya Roads Board. KRB is the Board that collects Roads Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF), which we need for the construction of roads in our constituencies, and so on. Therefore, the Leader of the Majority Party is trying to correct these structural and decision problems. I support this."
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