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    "content": "and a very good gentleman – and at that time hon. Nyachae, another elder and close friend of mine was the Minister. I remember visiting the office and he also directed that this road should be worked on. You will be surprised that up to this moment, that road is not passable. To make it worse, we suffer when there is no rain because of poor drainage; because the road has black cotton soil and there are so many drifts. A journey which maybe should take you one hour will take you four hours because of those problems. To make it worse, when it rains, it turns into a river. Right now, many parts of Garissa County, particularly Ijara, are not accessible because of the rains. The Tana River has flooded the roads, including the road I am talking about. There is also a bridge which was built with Kshs700 million to connect Ijara Constituency with Tana River so that people could access the tarmac road from Garsen to Garissa or to Nairobi. The western side of the bridge is, up to this moment, not passable because it has never been worked on yet the country had spent Kshs700 million. So, when we talk about poor road network in this country and marginalization, it is real. I sometimes think that both the Senate and even the National Assembly should take an opportunity - particularly the Committees which are responsible for communication and roads, to go out of this Capital City, Nairobi, and see the suffering of the people in many parts of our country. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we all know, there is no development that can be achieved without communication. Communication is vital because as I said, if an area is marooned because of the river or because of the rains and the floods, and people cannot even afford to hire a plane to drop food, you can imagine the agony which people go through. Therefore, we urge the Government that this matter should be taken seriously and something should be done. The only road we are asking to be tarmacked is the Garrisa-Wajir-Mandera Road which connects us to Ethiopia and Somalia. We are not asking for tarmaked roads within our urban areas. Our county is very dry and it is not necessary that there should be tarmac. If we have proper murram roads and the drifts are worked on so that they are passable, the hue and cry by people due to lack of roads will be minimized. With those few remarks, I strongly support this Motion."
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