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    "id": 1493508,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1493508/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": "Board disburses resources to Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) roads that serve in our game parks. This tells us that this Board has a higher mandate to ensure that the resources reach the authorities in good time. This is the body that disburses Roads Maintenance Levy Fund which is the additional money that we charge on fuel. We want to see growth of infrastructure. The roads across the Republic of Kenya should spread as far as possible to the areas that are perceived as marginalised. The fuel that Kenyans use in their vehicles today has a component close to Ksh25. These resources must reach all the corners of our country through KeRRA, KURA, KeNHA and KWS. I agree with the Member who spoke before me. The Kenya Roads Board must not become corrupt or have people who want to be enticed by the authorities, so that they allocate money based on their friendship with the Directors-General of the road authorities. It should not become a negotiation tool where you negotiate what must go to KURA and KeNHA. We need to revise the sharing formula of the resources to KURA, KeNHA and KeRRA because there are many roads that serve Kenyans under KeRRA. Most of the urban roads were constructed a long time ago. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party needs to pay attention to this. This Board must now review classification of roads, so that they bring more roads that are under county governments. They are poorly managed and impassable. They should bring them back to KeRRA, so that they can be finance them. The roads that are constructed by KeRRA in our constituencies are done properly. However, county governments do not construct roads properly. When they find a road that is constructed by KeRRA, they put a banner to indicate that they are the ones that have done it. The Leader of the Majority Party has come back. This point is very important. We need to re-classify our roads, so that they can go to KeRRA and KeNHA. We need to bring more roads from the county governments because they are unable to construct them. This is the Board that must do it. Reducing the numbers and making it effective and qualified means we shall have an efficient Board. I also call upon the Leader of the Majority Party and Government to go ahead and sort out other Boards that have excess members and not in accordance to Mwongozo. This will save more money for medicine and infrastructure of schools. The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) is strained because of lack of resources. If we reduce the number of members of Boards, we shall have enough savings to finance other programmes that are critical in this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is a straightforward Bill. I call upon the Leader of the Majority Party and Government to expeditiously move and bring amendments in all other boards, so that they are reduced to the correct numbers and become effective. I support the Bill."
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