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    "id": 396644,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Machage",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As I congratulate the Mover of this Motion, it is not possible to only look at the Kenya Roads Act of 2007; we have also to look at the Finance Act of 2009, which actually facilitated the establishment of the Constituency Roads Committees. Because these ones have to be looked at as a unit for us to completely devolve the roads infrastructure management to the county level. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we know, KeRRA supervises roads belonging to Class D, E and below, and these are the main roads found in the counties. They already have infrastructure that is already established at the county level. Therefore, we are not supposed to have a big problem in pushing the functions of KeRRA to the county; all we have to do is come up with a Bill and amend the Roads Act, 2007, to facilitate the same. Therefore, I will call on the Mover, after this Motion is passed - which I believe will pass - to move very fast and come up with amendments to the Roads Act of 2007 so that we can now empower the governor to oversee the activities of KeRRA at that level. Of course, we have to look at how we will reposition the Director-General of the same body and the infrastructure that is established at the national level. But it is important to know that Kenya is actually one of the countries in the world with very dilapidated road infrastructure. Therefore, it is of essence that we look at this issue very fast before funds are lost in this lacuna of confusion between the county government systems and the national Government system on who really is to manage the funds that are already allocated to KeRRA. It is true that KeRRA has already signed contracts with many multinational and local companies that are managing and dealing with roads at this time. Therefore, the transition might be a complicated issue because how do we handle the existing contracts with these companies? So, this is something that has really to be looked into in detail so The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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