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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. This Bill is timely. It operationalises the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. It reviews, consolidates and rationalises the legal institutional framework of our Constitution. The Roads Bill is critical to our country in the sense that roads are interconnectors. They connect all sectors of our economy. They connect the rural areas, unify our country, consolidate and make sure that our country is well networked. I want to point out that this Bill has very good clauses especially on classification of roads. The reclassification of roads as mentioned by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing was done about 30 or 40 years ago so that roads that were seen by then as insignificant are now contributing to our economy. For instance, the Timboroa-Songor-Chemelil Road was seen as only serving a rural area and small-scale farmers, but as I speak, that road is serving the economy of those areas which have a lot of sugarcane and other businesses. There was need to reclassify and make it a Class “C” Road. I want to congratulate the Roads Board for what they have done. The Sotik-Ainamoi-Kipkelion- Tinderet-Eldoret-Turkana Road has been ignored. With the reclassification which makes it a major trunk road connecting the North and the South Rift, you will realise that the economies of those regions will grow. By reclassifying these roads, county governments will now ensure that they work on roads that are meant for them. County governments have a lot of money from the roads levy and the Exchequer. If the money is well-managed, they can do more roads than what can be done by the national Government."
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