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    "id": 238285,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimeto",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimeto",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this October 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3071 opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Roads bring a lot of development to a country. I want to thank the Minister for bringing this Sessional Paper to this House. I would like to request him to include a provision in this Sessional Paper to the effect that primary and secondary school children will be involved in the maintenance and building of roads in every constituency in this country. This should be done by introducing a subject on how to maintain roads in primary and secondary schools. If we do that, everybody in this country will be involved in making of roads. In rainy areas, water sweeps away our roads, leaving behind many gulleys, and because our children are not taught how to maintain roads, they cannot do anything to help improve the roads affected by rains. The Minister should ask the Government to introduce a subject on how to maintain roads in primary and secondary schools. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, contractors who are awarded contracts to do our roads make killer roads. The roads are designed in such a manner that, when your breaks fail, you are left with no alternative but to crash into a steep or deep area. Why do they not make wide roads to allow drivers room to park their vehicles at the roadside when they develop mechanical problems? Our roads have no room for broken-down vehicles. So, if your vehicle breaks down while driving, you either crash into another vehicle or into a valley and die immediately. In other countries; for example, I have visited Canada; their roads have about 10 metres, which are areas for manoeuvring. Whenever your car breaks fail, you have time to manoeuvre. But in this country, there is no room for negotiation while driving; you either die immediately, or crash head-on with oncoming vehicles. The Minister should ensure that all our roads are wide, with at least 10 metres for negotiation after the main runway. When constructing roads we should leave some space of about ten metres for future expansion. Most countries have protected their roads. However, this is not the case in this country. We should not allow the destruction of our roads. We should also leave a space of ten metres for earth roads."
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