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    "id": 396648,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kuti",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this very important Motion, and I congratulate Sen. Mositet for bringing it forth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, infrastructure is a very key component of development, be it at the national or at the county level. If we want the counties to realize faster development, we should allow them to do their own infrastructure, and the most important one is roads. So, it is the local leadership – the governors and the county governments – that know which roads are crucial to them for their faster development; which roads will bring in the farm produce faster, and which roads will bring faster development to their counties. So, although these committees at the constituency level are functional, some major roads are considered at the national level by the Director-General and his team. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a victim of KeRRA, because when I was a Member of Parliament, I struggled to have one very crucial bridge that connects two districts in my constituency constructed then – Kolgotu Bridge – it made me negotiate all the way to the Head of State, whom we even invited to visit the district that was affected by that road. At that time, an executive order was given for KeRRA to develop that bridge, but up to today, it has not been done. I had to raise money from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), which was not quite enough. It is only now after I left that seat that the constituency now knows that that it is the current Member of Parliament who is doing this road, after being promised Kshs200 million in 2010, which has not been delivered up to now. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want this function devolved very quickly so that the county government can make decisions and quickly implement development at the county level. So, I strongly recommend and support the fact that county governments should be allowed to run the funds for roads of Class D and below."
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