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    "id": 364187,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/364187/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2303,
        "legal_name": "Peter Weru Kinyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. We cannot downplay the need for proper infrastructure. We have come from the regions which have suffered a lot especially the 24 year rule in this country. Infrastructure was almost a favor. This Motion is good and can be made better. Had it been in place I would not have a road which is 57 kilometres traversing Sagana and Marwa take ten years to construct. This would have taken two years. If this was in place I would not have in my constituency a road that we are competing who should construct it. We had to bring this to the attention of the President when he visited us. The road is only five kilometers. Again, if this was in place we would have a good road of say 30 kilometres and this would help us transport our coffee to the market. Probably there is a bit of fine tuning that we may need to do. We have talked about value for money. If you spend so thin so that you achieve uniformity, sometimes equity is not necessarily uniformity. This also touches on the practicability of these issues. For example, to give the people of Starehe 150 kilometres within their constituency, they do not even have those roads, but they still have some infrastructural needs that can be crafted to their needs. We have roads that traverse across constituencies and counties. These are mostly done by KeNHA. It will pose logistical and project management challenges to have them done in bits of 30 kilometres. If you go to Wajir and you do, say, 20 kilometres or 30 kilometres you may not achieve the desired results simply because the distances are so vast in such a constituency. We need, therefore, to support this Motion and see how it can be fine-tuned to ensure that the infrastructural development that we are all yearning for is achieved. A stitch in time saves nine. We have had very big challenges with maintenance of our roads. We do not have to do roads and forget that they need to be maintained. Many of the road accidents that we experience today are as a result of poor maintenance. There should be a proper programme of maintaining our roads to ensure that the gains we have made are consolidated and then we move forward, as a country, without having dilapidated roads that were done only a short while back. Such roads actually pose a bigger challenge than"
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