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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important that we really look at it that way. We must redefine the roles of both the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). However, I feel that there is also need for us to recognize the fact that these two institutions, for the last five years, have been able to build the necessary capacity. They now have experts and professionals in the form of civil engineers, structural engineers, economists, researchers, planners, cost analysts and people who carry out designs for roads and bridges. They also have staff who have acquired considerable expertise in the management of contracts and even procurement of road works. All these professionals are domiciled within these two roads authorities. They cannot be ignored because those are powerful professions and this country needs them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the other hand, the county governments which are now supposed to take over the function of roads, as presently constituted, do not have the capacity necessary to develop and maintain roads within their own jurisdiction. What we see in the majority of the counties is that they have been able to appoint one person, who is a member of the executive at the county level, and has been told that he or she will take responsibility for roads. It does not have any other staff. Very soon, some of the counties will be appointing a civil servant or somebody---"
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