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    "content": "to start changing our doctrine of survival because we can only start feeling a sense of survival when we see a road network. At one time I was in charge of security in this country and this was a major problem, and it is still a major problem even today. Regarding the issue of health, if a person is in Maralal or Baragoi, to get the sick person--- unless you use a helicopter, to get him or her to Nyahururu District Hospital which is 300 kilometres is impassible. What do you expect? Most of them die on the road. It is a serious matter that needs to be taken very, very seriously because the road is the best thing, if we agree not just to ask the Government to give us reports. I want to support those who are suggesting, not just the road network like this Motion has been amended – and I support the amendment very strongly – but I want to add something; that the road network, especially in areas where it has been neglected. People are talking about marginalization but I want to use the word “neglected” because there were many factors which were considered by those economists who were there before us. They thought differently from what we are saying. Therefore this Senate, Madam Temporary Speaker, needs to see beyond 50 years to come. What are we likely to achieve in the next 50 years, comparing it with the past 50 years? Because these are the things which have brought us here and we have to direct this country or to aim high and to think critically. Otherwise, if we keep on talking about the road between my house to another, it is not going to pay us any benefits. According to the Constitution, rural access roads are now under county governments. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is true and it is known by all of us that access roads have been used by those officers as a way of making money all these years, because you create a road now in July and after four months, the same road is finished; it is washed away. There must be a new technology of some kind, including supervision, which we can use. We should get rid of all these people who have been messing up with road making and maintenance, because I think that is where the problem lies. When I was looking at the new Cabinet, I was praying to God; are we going to get new people or the same people who come to look for money? Someone said that about Kshs300 billion is wasted away in corruption and stealing. I hope this is going to change with the new people. I do not know what the people think the new Cabinet Secretaries are going to bring here. They are the same people in the same environment. We need to manage these new people before they are polluted. Do not take them very seriously; they are our children, our brothers and sisters, and they live with us. They have the same problems that you and I have. You would not mind getting Kshs4 million a month or a day, if it can come by, but I think let us not--- As a stand here, we are saying that we are quite happy that we are going to have new people with new ideas. But you can easily get new people with more technology of stealing than those we have. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to support."
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