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    "id": 396653,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/396653/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion and remember that if there is one indicator that should remind Kenyans why we wanted devolution, it should be the roads sector. Even the so-called classification of roads; A, B, C, D and E was for convenience because it was done arbitrarily. When you say, for example, that Class A roads are the transnational highways; who does not know that we have a transnational highway that runs from Nairobi to Garissa and to Mandera which connects us with Ethiopia and yet the Government has not bothered to tarmac this very critical road? The tarmac ends at Garissa and on a whole 750 kilometres, there is no tarmac. So, this issue of Class A, B and others is arbitrary and was being used by the old school politicians to keep on taking development to their areas. It is this arbitrary classification of roads that you will find, from the time I was born, has contributed to having no tarmac road between Kisumu and Kakamega. Now, as we speak, they are busy tarmacking another one."
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