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    "id": 1571103,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we must put our eyes on the Ministry of Roads and Transport. The Cabinet Secretary agrees that he has a challenge in the Ministry because the officers inflate figures. He gave an example of constructing foot bridges. They have donors to support building the foot bridges but when he asked for the figures for the construction, they were inflated four times. We have a problem with the Ministry. It is rotten. It is letting us down. A road is built but hardly one month later, even before it is commissioned, it has potholes. How do we clear the contractors and issue them certificates of completion? As a House, we must be deliberate about this. I call upon the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure to dig deeper now that the Cabinet Secretary has acknowledged that there is a lot of corruption in the Ministry. We must deal with corruption. As we talk about trunk roads, we must be deliberate as leadership and Parliament. Some roads help to de-congest the major roads. I come from close to the border and we are so disadvantaged because of trucks. At times they line up to Eldoret. So, if we focus on the interconnecting and inter-county roads, like the Mungatsi-Mianga-Kimaeti-Malakisi Road, we will de-congest our major roads, which will help us. Additionally, we must focus on the railway because it will de-congest our roads. We must be deliberate and de-politicise allocations to, and routing of the railway. The mzungu came to Kenya and put a ruler from Mombasa to Malaba. They decided that having a railway from Mombasa to Nairobi to Eldoret to Bungoma and Malaba would be economically viable The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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