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    "content": "kilometre. Let us be innovative and think anew. One of the reasons I would like to believe that the Cabinet is being filled with new faces, is to be able to address new ways of doing things. Therefore, I urge that if we, indeed, want to create opportunities for Kenyans, one of the biggest advantages of construction of roads is that they provide a lot of labour; they employ many young people. If you think about it, the development by Germany and the United States of America (USA) were simply based on infrastructure development. Infrastructure development employs a lot of people and has a huge multiplier effect. Therefore, I would like to support this Motion and urge my fellow Senators to support it. More importantly, I would like to urge this Ministry to act positively and to think in a new manner of doing things. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also necessary for the Ministry to re-classify the roads because if we follow the beaten track, we will have only certain roads being constructed by the respective Ministry. Most counties do not have classified roads. Even as we move this Motion, what is going to happen is that they will continue constructing those roads in only areas where the roads have been classified. Therefore, I think re- classification is necessary. The Ministry can make it possible that in each county, there is a road that is classified as one that is supposed to be attended to by the central Government. Otherwise, you will find that the money that is going to the counties will be used by some counties on infrastructure while others will not. Even where there are roads, for example, in a county like Nyeri, the inequality is huge. Kieni constituency constitutes 52 per cent of Nyeri County, which is also a semi-arid area and classified as such, yet if you go to Kieni Constituency, there are no roads worth talking about. Even within the counties themselves, there is inequality. Therefore, inequality exists county to county and exists within the county itself. So, in balancing this matter, it is necessary for the Ministry to look at this imbalance wholistically, reclassify their roads, use new materials and think scientifically. In so doing, we will succeed. With those few remarks, I support this Motion."
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