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"content": "and managu. The bulk of the sageti and managu you consume in Nairobi comes from Nyamira and Kisii. Therefore, if you put that stopover in Ikonge, you will make life easier for farmers and traders in order to be fair for the people in the Gusii region as well as the people of Nyanza region. I am also sure that there might be a stopover either in Kericho or Bomet as well as Narok. You will then have served all those counties. Anything other than that, will be a big injustice to the people of Nyamira. I also hope that as we share this revenue, we would like to enjoy our lives as we travel to our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know whether you have had the opportunity of passing the road on the interchange to Maai Mahiu. Under that bridge, we have gullies and lorries coming from Maai Mahiu, the queue starts from the junction that goes to Limuru, although I do not know its name, simply because we are unable to repair the potholes on that underpass. Yet every time I fuel a car, there is tax for road maintenance. Every time a Kenyan fuels, especially the ones going to Narok, Bomet and Kisii, they pay taxes, but that road has remained unrepaired for the last two years. We go through that pain every weekend. Any time some of us who are not endowed to be sky team leave Nyamira, we always wonder whether we will make it to Nairobi, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Madam Temporary Speaker, can this money not be used to do some of these simple things? Even for the tourists going to Narok, what image of our country do they form when they pass through a national road that has those kinds of potholes? It is a collective shame to all of us, as leaders in this country. Something needs to be done. I had hoped to put a question today, but I got late by the hearings affecting my Governor in the Committee on Education. However, I do hope to get time to raise that question. Let the Government make life easier for us. We may not be using the dual carriageway to Nakuru and the Mau Summit, but the ones using the Maai Mahiu, Narok and to Bomet, including our tourists, should be taken care of. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I conclude, I also hope that our governors will make use of these funds to improve our Early Childhood Education (ECD) facilities. There was a picture I presented before our Committee on Education, the kind of desks at Nyameko ECD in North Mugirango, Nyamira. How will those children grow to love school and education if we put them through such an environment? Look at how dilapidated the desks are. Why can the governors not have their priorities right? There was another one I shared on Ekerubo Gietai ECD Centre. I am pleading with my friend, Governor Nyaribo, to use the resources we send to our counties to make ECD classes attractive to our children, so that they grow up, loving and enjoying school from their early stage. However, if you send them to a school where they fall down and their knees get hurt, they will not love school. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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