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    "id": 218451,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamasi",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Lyula Khamasi",
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    "content": "Here is an engineer who is telling me this jokingly, that their culture is to eat. When you look at that type of variation of a contract, you really wonder. Shall we ever be real Kenyans and mind about our motherland? I know the Minister has good intentions. He is a very nice man and he will go ahead and do what he wants to do. However, I do not know how he will cure this \"eatology\" disease. It is a big problem! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for a long time because I am a gentleman, I do not bother Ministers when they are sitting in their offices. I have once gone to the Minister's office to tell him about a road in my own constituency which was designed and was completed in the last four years. It is a road which the former Vice-President twice came and said that it was going to be tarmacked; at one stage because some people were defecting from FORD(A) to KANU. At that stage, I cannot remember what was happening, he twice promised that, that road; Road D298, from Kakamega to Chepsonoi, was going to be tarmacked and the Minister gave instructions to his officers. I will be raising the same issue when he brings the Vote here. There is no point of wasting public resources designing roads and then you shelve them and nobody bothers about what has gone on. It is of no use! It is a total waste of public funds and giving people hope for nothing. I think this is a matter that needs to be looked at very closely so that we do not just talk about things going to be done. We must see them actually done. A colleague of mine mentioned something to do with the Roads 2000 Programme. Western Province is probably the only province that does not have this programme. We have asked to be explained reasons why that cannot be the case. Probably, one day, somebody will think about it seriously and find out how and why a whole province has been excluded from this programme. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our roads, particularly rural roads, we have a major problem with encroachment on them. I hope with the introduction of this Bill, we shall not watch this done with impunity. More often than not, you do not find a solution to where encroachment has been done on rural roads. You do not know who is responsible for making sure that this is actually not done. You go to the roads engineers and they will refer you to the Provincial Administration and you find yourself being tossed left, right and centre and nothing is happening. What I really wanted to say has been covered by my friends. However, I want to let the Minister know one thing. It is now very dangerous to drive on our roads. I experienced it myself very recently when I took the chance of driving from Kericho to Kisumu in the night. I was very, very lonely on that road because everybody has deserted the road and it was at night. I felt that I was in trouble. If I got a breakdown on that road, I would have been in trouble. We are watching it! Recently, a Question was raised here and there is no plan at all. There is nothing put in place by the Government, to address this issue yet it is a major road. This is a major road, yet everyone has deserted it. The only road I would have diverted to has a lot of traffic and it is already being worn out at a very fast rate. So, we will continue to wear it out completely and at the end of the day, we will have two roads which are worn out and nothing is being done about them."
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