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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Phillip Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to say something about this Bill. I want to, first of all, thank the Minister for bringing this Bill. Yesterday, when he was moving the Bill, he moved it in a very good way. He gave us the background of why the Bill should be amended. He gave a wonderful speech yesterday about why the Bill is supposed to be amended. I want to thank him on that. I do not want to repeat all what my colleagues have said because they have spoken very well. All of us are not living in the outer space. We know this country. All of us have driven in this country and know how the roads are. I am pleading with the Minister to check his staff. If doctors were like engineers, all of us would be dead. Engineering is a wonderful profession. It is a profession with morality and respect. But they have really downgraded that profession. I am pleading with the Minister to do something. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to mention only one road. The road from Kapenguria- Kitale-Lodwar to Lokkichogio is a main road. The road is just gone! You can imagine how much money we get from Southern Sudan. That is a highway. But the whole road is gone and there are no plans to rehabilitate that road. Secondly, the other day, I drove to Marakwet. There is a road called a hanging tarmac in Chesoi in some place in Marakwet. If you look at the quality of that road--- I am pleading with the Minister to inspect that road. It was done by a company that they mentioned. That is not tarmac. It is just deceiving people that there is tarmac. There are engineers in the Ministry who are supposed to supervise that road. I am pleading with the Minister to get time and supervise the roads that we are doing. Otherwise, the plans and the vision that the Minister has by creating the authorities is a wonderful idea. We are going to support it. I wish that those ideas are implemented to the letter, so that we can be like other people. We cannot talk about development if our roads are not up to the standards. With those few remarks, I want to say that I support the Bill. I encourage the Minister to take charge."
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