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    "id": 1571413,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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    "content": " We are struggling to have minor roads. We are struggling to have something that befits the definition of a road. In your creative mind – and I like that – you have alluded to the great tarmac roads in parts of Kenya. I appreciate you. When you bring the Bill, please expand your horizon of thinking to my village and to somebody in Moyale, Turkana, Lamu, West Pokot or Garissa. That is what will bring the people of this sovereign Kenya together. We will then appreciate the classification of roads from “A”, “B”, and “C”. I do not have roads to be classified. We are still struggling. I want to remind you of one great thing the late Mzee Kibaki did. When he was the Minister for Finance in 1974, there was a bilateral agreement between the Government of Kenya and the Government of Ethiopia to tarmac the Addis Ababa–Moyale-Marsabit-Isiolo Road. The Government of Ethiopia did theirs within the shortest time possible. On the contrary, it took the Government of Kenya until 2003, when the late Mzee Kibaki became President, to remember that Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). He instructed the then Minister for Roads to forfeit all the precarious bottlenecks and implement that decision. Today, we have a great road that links Kenya to Ethiopia. The benefits? Accessibility, efficient road, reduction of road accident, and a literal trade boost. Remember, Ethiopia is the sleeping giant of Africa with a population close to 150 million people. Can you imagine that market? Today, there is something called the Safaricom effect in Ethiopia, which is going to be one of our diplomatic engagements. That is a closed zone. Right now, every Kenyan, even in the village, has access to Safaricom, courtesy of our communication infrastructure development. These are things we need to inculcate. For the people of Northern Kenya, these classes only exist in theory. I remember when I was in school, we used to be asked what a tarmac road was and we would answer that ‘a tarmac road is a black substance found in down Kenya.’ That down town Kenya is where you come from. I want to inculcate those students and make them believe that ‘down Kenya’ is in 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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