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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I would just like to remind ourselves that we have been governing our country for the last 50 years and some of us, when we were growing up, we were privileged to pass through some tarmacked roads a few times. Talking of my county of Kitale, we had tarmacked roads and, in the process in between, you find that those roads have now been covered with murram. So, it is a challenge that the Senate and the Governors have – to put road priority as number one so that we may be able to see a difference in our leadership. As a Senate, I feel that this is the appropriate moment for this august House to take up this challenge as a priority as I commend and support this Motion. Traversing Kenya is very painful. The other day, I was in Nyanza. I wish Senator Orengo was here. I had gone to his place and asked him; you have been in Parliament for many years, where are the roads in your constituency and the whole of Nyanza? This is the situation in most parts of the country. The challenge is here and the Committee mandated to do this work should do it to the satisfaction of Kenyans by putting the very experienced people with proper research plans and programmes in place. I also want us to remind ourselves about our roads. If you look at some of the roads being considered to be tarmacked, for instance, the Ziwa-Kitale Road, you will see that they were done by unscrupulous contractors and you cannot even tell whether they were tarmacked. The challenge lies with the Senate and especially the Committee mandated to carry out this work to make sure that even if construction work of a road network is contracted, the outcome is a proper and clean job which has been supervised and done to the satisfaction of Kenyans. I support the Motion."
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