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    "id": 1625625,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "content": "pathetic state yet it has been used only for three years. The contractor of that road should be called to order and blacklisted. I am aware it was done in the previous Government. In fact, the CS for Roads then, the head who stood for that road; the supervisor and the contractor, must be called out. We have roads that were done in the 1960s that are still in good shape. On the road between Simotwo High School all the way to the other part of Keiyo and the other way to Ainabkoi, which has been there for three years, we must be told who the contractor is. That contractor must be blacklisted. The retention money that is in the account must be brought back because if we are using taxpayers money to fix a road, then use the road for only three years and potholes are all over, that road was done in a substandard manner. I want to request the Committee on Roads and Transportation to go back and investigate not only that road of Naiberi-Kipkabus, but also this other part of Keiyo all the way to Tingua, and from Tingua all the way to Ainabkoi. It is not only that. Even my road, the one I talked about today, Chepterimo University, it is barely three years in use. I am not an engineer, but the gentlemen are repairing it using murram and tarmac. I wonder why would you put murram and tarmac. I am not an engineer, but that is substandard work. We want a situation where when we fix a road with tarmac, that road should have a lifespan of 50 years before we see a pothole. The people of Elgeyo Marakwet and Uasin Gishu who use that road are really suffering. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy that His Excellency the President took note of that road and directed that something be done. This road was done in the previous regime. The reason I speak on behalf of such is because all of us are leaders without boundaries across the nation. With those remarks, so that I allow my other colleagues to contribute and my sister to reply, allow me to graciously and with a lot of humility second this Bill. Let this money go to the villages. Let us fix our roads, schools and hospitals. The governors and the people who are in charge should know that this is taxpayers’ money. One shilling lost from taxpayers’ money is too much because Kenyans pay this tax in pain. We are all aware that there are two sure things in life; death and taxes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to second."
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