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    "id": 365729,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/365729/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njenga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1510,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kigo Njenga",
        "slug": "francis-kigo-njenga"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, mine is to sincerely support this Motion. If you look through what we have done, as a country, by putting murram in our roads year in, year out, you will see that, once we have the harsh weather that we experience now and again in this country, all our investment in murram roads go to waste. We just then duplicate investment of resources. A minimum of 20 kilometers per year in five years will be 100 kilometers. In the long run, we will put our resources to other productive activities in this nation. That way, we will avoid wastage. In fact, there will be savings. We will never attain Vision 2030 and all its advantages unless we look at rural development. Rural areas have not enjoyed tarmacked roads for many years. When there is tarmacking of roads, it is not evenly distributed. If we can do tarmac roads in rural areas, we will curb rural-urban migration. I want to talk about rural-urban migration. With the Thika Super Highway, it takes you about 45 minutes or even one hour from my constituency to Nairobi. So, we will have people going back to live in the rural areas and contributing to the economies. The other thing I would like to talk about is decongestion in the city. People can do business in the rural areas. If we have that, we could connect the counties. I would like to talk about a very simple road from a place called Gatukuyu to a place called Matara. If that road is done – and it is only 35 kilometers - it will connect Matara to Rwanyambo which is in Kinangop. We will be able to get food to Nairobi within one hour. If food is brought to Nairobi within one hour - after reducing the distance - we are going to have cheaper food in this city. By doing so, the people going to Nyahururu will not do the curve that they normally do by going all the way to connect the Nakuru Highway, and then to Nairobi. That will be a short-cut; another by- pass. That will again, decongest our roads. So, if there is anything I stand to support, it is this Motion. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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