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    "content": "Mandera, driving smoothly for six or so hours, the security issues aside, hurts the economy. Goodness; it is emerging that the places where we thought there were no resources or there was no need to put tarmac roads, that is where it is turning out that we are getting the most vital resources. So, I think that for the Senate to have this regular report, it will enable us now to plan together with our counties and with the national Government, to know where there is need, the extent and distribution of road networks. I had said that the road networks in Siaya, especially many of the rough roads which reach out to very important trading centres and towns are inaccessible during the rainy season. Right now, if I wanted to go to certain places in Busia, Ababu Namwamba’s constituency of Budalang’i or to Sen. Wako’s home, there are some roads there that would be totally inaccessible. Therefore, I think we should work a lot harder to ensure that roads become usable; be they paved or not, because that is vital and important for the economy. It is also good for this Government to do it because the face of the Government in place for people in Siaya, Turkana or Baringo or even in Mombasa—We used to say this a lot when we were truly in the Opposition – that if you want to know the face of that Government, look at the state of the roads; you do not look at the leaders, just look at the roads. So, by the end of these one or two years, the face of this Government is going to be reflected on the condition or the status of the roads. You cannot have a body where the face is clean and the foot is dirty; it must be all clean or all dirty. So, every part of Kenya counts and for these reasons, I fully support this Motion and encourage my colleagues also to do so. I thank you."
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