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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to make a few comments on Vote 13 - Ministry of Roads and Public Works. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support the Vote before I even say anything. But, just like all my other friends have said, let me say that a good road network is very important to the development of any country. Any region or area that does not have a proper road network cannot have any development. When the road network is not there, then you know that there is no economic development. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me talk about the area between Mt. Suswa to Keringet. That is a very high potential area. The area between Mt. Suswa to Keringet is approximately 300,000 hectares. This country could feed itself, feed the neighbours and export wheat, barley, maize, pyrethrum and everything else from that area! But there is no road network in that area! I want the Minister to mark the area between Mt. Suswa to Keringet. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, apart from the road passing in the periphery - like Nakuru and other areas - for example, the road to serve farmers and the country in that area is not there! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me talk about Narok-Maai Maahiu Road. This road was started just a few years ago by Kuldan Sigh but he abandoned it, yet he was supposed to do 42 kilometres. However, he only did 12 and 30 kilometres were never done. I do not know who else went to try and complete the road but we know that the road has never been done. It is only those 12 kilometres that have been done and the road has been abandoned. This road passes vertically through this area that I am talking about. Even the Mau Narok-Narok Road was planned to be done as early as the Katende days, during the reign of the late hon. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. In fact, it was put in the planning books that it was completed. We do not know who took the money but it is a mystery. It is another mystery! I want to appeal to the Minister, and he has been doing very well because, at least, we know that the Maai-Mahiu-Narok Road started in his time. Whether it was in the plan before or not, we know it has started during his time. I am appealing to him again to make sure that, that road is supervised properly, so that it is done properly, with the right surface. A lot of traffic now goes down to the Maasai Mara across into Tanzania, Tarime and all the way. If the layer is not good enough, like the one that was done just immediately after Independence, which has now worn off, then we will have a problem. The other thing about the Maai-Mahiu-Narok Road is that I wish to appeal to the Minister, and his good will, to make sure that people of Narok District, from Maai Mahiu to Narok, are employed. We might not have engineers as such. We might not have qualified surveyors, but, definitely, we have a surplus of clerks and drivers. We also have a surplus of watchmen and so we do not see any reason for importing them, just because an officer working for those companies is of a certain tribe."
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