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    "id": 1571474,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571474/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is long overdue. Hon. Gitau has always thought beyond boundaries for Kenyans. She is my role model. Many roads in Kenya were constructed the way our grandfathers or colonialists thought; to the destinations. But roads should be made for journeys. We should not suffocate and congest cities. We can think in a broad way and not narrowly, on how we can use different routes from what our grandfathers used. These are the same routes we are still using today. We are harming Kenya, because there is no way we will attract investors in areas that were never even discovered by Google Maps. I want her to also edit and add that every county must have at least one airstrip. I stay in Busia, a town that neighbours Uganda but if I want to go to Kampala, a person in Nairobi will reach Kampala before me. I will have to come from Busia, go to Kisumu and come to JKIA to board a plane to Uganda. We have to stop thinking narrowly. We also need to do something about improving livelihoods. We should have more properly tarmacked inroads, and not roads that the concerned authorities keep on patching up only for them to be washed away when the rains come. I mean roads that will be clinically constructed beyond towns into remote areas. That is how developed nations thought and started those days. If we started today in every town, and it does not matter if it is Turkana or Garissa, places that I have heard my other colleagues mention hardly have any tarmac roads, adding at least one tarmac road per year, in 10 years’ time, a town that was neglected and could not attract investors will be the talk of the day. The indigenous people, and even us, will also be attracted to that town because the infrastructure will be up to date. Hon. Temporary Speaker, when we talk of growing our economy infrastructure cannot be ignored. It has to be among the factors that improve any village and bring new money to the community because both domestic and international investors are attracted to areas where the roads are well done. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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