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    "id": 1553002,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1553002/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": "We have developed regulations that are currently in the Attorney-General’s office. We hope to get gazette this week and thereafter introduce alcoblow to ensure that we do not have drunken drivers endangering the lives of road users, for that matter. The Traffic Act is under NTSA while the implementing agency or the enforcement agency is under Ministry of Interior and National Administration. Those are some of the things we are working on to polish up so that we can address this challenge of loss of innocent lives and carnage on our roads. The other supplementary question was on Awasi-Katitu Road. Let me not make a commitment on the Floor of the House because a number of these require budgetary scrutiny. We need to work very closely together. Professor, we can sit down and look at level of accommodation on the basis of prioritization of roads in the county. More importantly, we currently have commitments on our ongoing projects totaling to about Kshs2.1 trillion. With the budgetary allocation of about Kshs50 million every year, that would take us about 20 to 30 years. I do not want to say 40 years because Kshs2 trillion divided by 50 is 40. We need to tread very carefully and do proper prioritization and affirmative action to ensure that we are building Kenya in an equitable way. Sen. (Prof.) Ojienda, allow me to basically look at this specific road with respect to the programmes going on in the county and the level of priority from the leadership of the county. Sen. Maanzo, asked about Emali-Ukia Road and whether we need to urgently prioritise and tarmac it being the only section in the whole of the corridor. These are very specific requests with respect to supporting this transnational corridor. Therefore, allow me to basically sit down with Sen. Maanzo and look at that."
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