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    "id": 212338,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/212338/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Therefore, this is the time we need thinkers in the Ministry of Roads and Public Works, not just engineers! Engineers are people to be managed and told what to do! We 2788 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 25, 2007 need people with a vision; people who look at the country in terms of development without fearing any political interferences or whatever. That can only happen if we return the current President to power: The man who would allow people to do their jobs without interference. So, the important part here is this: We have hon. Nyachae in this Ministry and, fortunately, he has a very mature Permanent Secretary! All you need today is to allow technocrats with very good minds to look at Kenya and decide which way to go. That has been happening. If you look at the current Budget, you will see that areas which have too many people, for example, where you come from--- You will find that there are areas where the Government needs to take keen interest. Hon. Nyachae, the Minister for Roads and Public Works, is aware of what I am going to say because in Rift Valley Province, where he has been a Provincial Commissioner for a long time, it was transformed by the people of this country. They purchased all the land. It became their property. What the Ministry has never done is to know there are old districts; what we call \"traditional districts\" and new districts mostly in Rift Valley Province, the former white highlands. We, in those districts, are not asking for tarmacked roads. We are, really, asking for access roads. But here, you have officers, some of whom are like if they do not come from this country! They do not know what is happening! If you go to Laikipia, Nakuru or a place like Eldoret and Kitale, you will find that people cannot even move their crops out of their farms! They have no way! They even use bicycles and donkeys to get to the main roads. Those are the areas that we must be concerned about! We should not just aim to please the whole world that we have tarmacked a road between here and Kakamega and, therefore, feel great! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the essence of development is to make a person who is not able to be able. You must enable him to be sure that he belongs here!"
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