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    "id": 667223,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1529,
        "legal_name": "Ejidius Njogu Barua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support this Bill. In my opinion, it is long overdue yet it has very important content that will revolutionalise construction, maintenance and management of road infrastructure in this country in the future. One of the attributes I am happy about is the assertion that all parts of this nation must be connected to a national trunk road. This is important because what happened after the 2013 elections and with the introduction of county governments is the emergence of some grey areas on what is national or county. In some areas, operations were taken in a way to chase the national Government from the counties. Having this definition and joining all counties and constituencies to national trunk roads is one way of making sure Kenya remains a unitary state. Secondly, we remember a few counties including mine went to court and argued that money for construction of roads and road works must be devolved to the counties, recently. This was granted by the courts. Before the classification was done, people in those counties had to suffer. Money was held by KeRRA because there was no mechanism of releasing the money for road construction and maintenance. With the classification, it is clear what is to be maintained and constructed by counties and what is to be done by the national Government. This means it will be easy for leaders to be taken to account. Road sections which have been assigned to county governments will have to be publicised to the wananchi, so that they as the beneficiaries will have a voice and opportunity to fight from a point of knowledge. It is not going to be business as usual. Wananchi are not going to think that being given a road by the county 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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