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"content": "pothole, you would have to wait to do a contract in another financial year to fix that pothole. By the time you come back, you would find that there was no road. So, you would have to spend even more money to do a whole road which you could have fixed. So, what did he do? He said; let us have some road maintenance machinery in almost every region in this country that could then respond to some of these things. I remember we negotiated with the Government of South Korea, at that time, and we were availed some long term loan which enabled us to have some equipment in our regions. In the region called Southern Nyanza, we had them in Kisii. They were put all over the country in 16 or so regions. They have been helpful, but not quite. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want us to go back to where we were at Independence, because every county council had equipment. We had graders, compactors, tippers, among other machines. Tippers used to collect the murram next to my home. I knew the driver by name because every morning, he would be picking some murram there and dropping it into some place. Our roads were very good. I saw that before Independence; each county council had a grader, a tipper, a shovel and all those things that can help you, at least, have a motorable road. Then I think we completely wound up our county councils because we never gave them money to maintain those things. I still see the chuma kubwa ya compactor somewhere on the roadside which was dropped there 40 years ago. I still see it when I pass there. It is evidence that we have neglected our country. Now, we have reinvented ourselves and we have created counties. The counties can now go back to where we were and because now there are more roads, we can go not only to each county, but also to each constituency which are now districts. So, I am sure the counties cannot afford some of these things with the money that we are giving them to buy equipment to open these roads and maintain them. So, what the central Government must do is to negotiate with these countries that are rich, but at the same time, they repair the equipment. We can go back to South Korea and agree what each constituency should have in terms of machinery. They will have a grader, an earthmover, a compactor, a shovel and tippers. They will have all those things that can be used to make a road. The money we give them every year will now be used for fuel, oils and allowances. Since the people who will be doing these things will need them, we will have roads again in areas where we have not had roads before. It will be our primary responsibility to maintain our roads. If the governors and the sub-county managers will not do that work, the villagers will be on them because they will see the equipment lying idle and nothing is being done. If we do so, within five years alone, nobody will be complaining that we cannot reach certain places because roads will have been opened. I am telling you that the thieves and the cattle rustlers we are talking about here, will flee because there will be nowhere to hide with 600 heads of cattle. They will be seen very quickly and be apprehended by the security forces. Madam Temporary Speaker, the second thing we must do to sort out this issue is to give security back to the people. There is no security that can come from “above” and be effective. I have a young man whom I found when I went to Turkana; there was a war there with the Ethiopian militia and he comes from my village. He told me: “You know when those people came here, there were 100 of them and only five of us. We just surrendered because we could not even try to fight.” So, they surrendered, gave them the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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