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    "id": 396682,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/396682/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Leshore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Prisa Leshore",
        "slug": "sammy-leshore"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. From the outset, I would like to urge my fellow Senators to support this Motion. Those of us who were in the Eight Parliament knew very well that the national Government was always hesitant to release the CDF money to the constituencies. I remember the late Bonaya Godana told me that he had created 4,000 kilometres of road using the CDF money. When I asked him how, he told me that the engineer on the ground was a local person in the name of Sen. Hargura. He was the one who was in charge of Marsabit and he did 4,000 kilometres of road. Before we passed the CDF Motion, we did not have roads in our constituencies. For the last 50 years in my county, we have never seen a tarmack road. I would like to thank the former President Mwai Kibaki who did 100 kilometres of road between Isiolo and Merile. It is not that he loved the Samburus, but because the road was connecting Kenya and Ethiopia. Since then, we never tell our children to go to Nyahururu, which is over 200 kilometres away, to learn what a tarmack road is. We can now easily move to Archers Post. I support this Motion because I know that all these money which is being given out in Nairobi does not go to the counties. Between April and May, the Deputy President, hon. Ruto, said that there was about Kshs500 million to repair roads which had been destroyed by the rains. I wonder whether any county has benefited from that. Samburu County only benefitted about 20 kilometres where they only put stones and covered them with soil. I am sure if this money gets down to KeRRA at the county level, the Governor and the county representatives will have to supervise projects the way they have been supervising the constituency roads. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to urge the Government to transfer this money as soon as possible so that we can endevour to put our roads in a better condition. We have been crying for the last 50 years since we got Independence for the Rumuruti- Maralal Road to be tarmacked. My friend, Sen. Hassan, is lucky because he was born where a tarmack road was. There are some people from some areas who are yet to see a tarmac road in Nyahururu and Maralal. I wish one day His Excellency the President could tour that area using that road and not the air force choppers so that he can see what we are going through especially during the rainy season. I beg to support."
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