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    "id": 205705,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Maathai",
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        "legal_name": "Wangari Muta Maathai",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion on Vote 14 for the Ministry of Transport. I will first of all thank the Minister and his team for the excellent work that they have done in addressing problems on many roads which for many years were abandoned. In making my contribution, I almost feel like I am repeating something I have said every year when we come to this Vote. It is partly because I sometimes wonder whether we talk here, but the Ministry does not read the HANSARD and see what was said and try to address the issues raised. This issue has remained untouched and every year we make contributions. However, I will do it again for the record and hope that the Ministry this time might, indeed, do something about it. It is something that is very disturbing at the grassroots level. It is in connection with gravelling of roads. I have never fully understood why roads are gravelled immediately before the rains, because what that does is that it makes the soil very loose. When the rains fall, all that soil is washed away by water; that also has a tendency to make the roads very slippery. So, when the rains come, hon. Members--- At least I get called by my constituents from all directions to complain about the fact that the roads were gravelled immediately before the rains and now the rains have fallen---"
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