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    "id": 663415,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Members of Parliament will have a role to play in certain roads. This Bill is very important and our input is welcome. I am sure by the time it comes back from the Senate, we will know where to put that function within our constituencies, the functions for the national Government and the county governments. Those are the preliminaries. Let me go to the highlights of this Bill. Part 1, just like in any other Bill, deals with the interpretation of words, object and purpose of the Bill and the guiding principal. Part II provides for the development and position of standards. It also talks about the set standards and development of any road in our country. Part III is important to all of us. It deals with the classification of national trunk roads which are under the national Government. Again, it deals with county roads and their assignments. The classification of county government roads and national Governments trunk roads is found there. Part IV provides for the establishment of the two institutions which I have talked about, namely KeNHA and KeNSRA. It talks about their management, constitution of the board, their powers and functions. Part V proposes for the procedure of appointment for the chairperson, members of board and the office of the Director-General. I want to make this very clear. Members of the board in the two roads authority will not be like in other boards in the Government who can be nominated by the Cabinet Secretary (CS). There is a procedure and they must meet certain qualifications. The qualification of the Director- General, members of the board and the Chairman are provided in the Bill. Their term of office is well documented in Part V. On removal from office of the board members and the Director- General - and that is what we are insisting in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) - the Constitution anticipates and corrects itself. It tells us how to recruit and appoint. The same Constitution talks about removal from office."
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