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    "id": 385658,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 506,
        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, maybe I am being misunderstood but the point here is that in those same areas, this word “skewed” has been used to deny them development. It is not that there are areas in this country that we can consider as having no economic value. Every place has its economic value. In the past, the “skew” thing has been used to deny those areas which have economic value some development. I am saying that we should be deliberate and actually skew the process to go to those areas. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would also like to bring on board another point. This is the point of road classification. This classification of roads has actually led to the skew that we are talking about. There have been situations where funds have been available but you could not use them to develop certain roads because they are classified and the law in the past required that you could not use certain funds for development of such roads. In the past, you could not use the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to develop the pathways in the villages simply because they are not classified and yet they are the roads that bring bananas to the main road where you can deliver them to the market. You could never get them to the market if you do not develop those roads but funds were denied because the roads are not classified. It is fair that we also reclassify our roads so that every road benefits from the funds. Lastly, I think it is also important that in the process of doing infrastructure, we would want to safeguard the gains that we have already got in this country. Therefore, security is very important. So, when we are considering the development of infrastructure, we should look at the issue of security to make sure that we give preference or skew our development of roads to areas where we can safeguard the gains. For example, we want to develop roads in areas where there is cattle rustling. I want to support this Motion using the word “skew” in a very positive manner in order to avoid marginalization where the same word has been used in the past, especially if we have a body that will be able to give us reports on what is happening on our roads. This is the opportunity that the Senate can use to make sure that “skew” is not used unfavourably to other regions of Kenya. Otherwise, I support the Motion as it is originally."
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