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    "id": 502779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "As we debate this expansion, we should actually look at other major roads. If you happen to live along Landhies and Jogoo roads, just next to Outering Road; if you must reach the City at 9.00 a.m, you must wake up at 5.00 a.m. yet it is a short distance. This is because the country has been moving without planning ahead. We, therefore, thank the Government for the current expansion of the bypasses which have become a good relief for the people who live along Mombasa Road, especially the Northern Bypass which is now working. The Southern Bypass, when it starts working, will actually decongest Mombasa Road. Therefore, those two roads should not even be debated. We should just pass it and it should be implemented so that it relieves the better part of Umoja and the surrounding areas which have been locked through jam for a very long time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion and I am hoping it will not take a long time before it is implemented. I also support the issues of providing proper parking lots, bus terminus and modernization of other surrounding facilities like Wakulima Market. If you happen to pass through Wakulima Market, you will wonder whether you are in a city, because it is very dirty and congested. I also want to take head on the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure in the way they are carrying out their designs. When they are doing the designs for new roads, I wonder whether they do it in the office or elsewhere. This is because there are many roads which are being constructed in this country and we happen to have a lot of complaints that they are not providing bus terminus. They do not construct proper roads, therefore forcing matatus to stop on the roads. An example is the newly completed Mau Summit-Kisumu Road, where quite a number of shopping centers including Kedowa Market, have no parking for lorries. Lorries park on the highway. There is also a center called Kapdavid where there is no stage yet there were engineers who were designing it. So, as they design the Landhies and Jogoo roads, they should not refer to the designs that were done in 1963 when those two roads were being built. They should do the design considering the current status of that road, current population and facilities which are along the highway. For example, there are many schools and markets which have come up which might not have been there. When The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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