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    "id": 667240,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ngetich",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 511,
        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "As they embark on providing or developing infrastructure, priority needs to be given to inroads that serve very important facilities such as health centres. In Bomet, very many roads are impassable and prospective mothers really suffer. You can imagine an expectant mother in labour pain being transported on a boda boda . One can only expect what would happen. We have also seen roads that serve primary schools being impassable. During the rainy season like what is going on now, streams cut off the roads and the young ones cannot cross the gullies that are created by the flowing water. This classification will enhance service delivery and citizens will hold into account those who are responsible for the particular roads. I am happy with the Bill particularly Clause 94(2)(e) which talks about quality. It says that regulations will be developed to ensure that those in charge of developing roads will do so in accordance with the national standards. In Bomet, roads which are made are narrower yet there is a standard width of a road. However, unqualified contractors narrow the road such that you cannot have two vehicles moving towards the opposite direction. One will have to stop for the other one to pass. They are poorly done and narrower than expected. I want to mention one particular road from Kapkwen to Kagawet to Ngocho and to Soliot. I had to cross a very risky manmade bridge on foot and walked another one kilometre to get to an area which would have taken me very few minutes to reach. From the point I alighted, it took me much time to walk one kilometre as opposed to if the road was well made. Clause 92 has also clearly brought in the idea of private-public partnership and public participation. Public participation will ensure that citizens will value this service. It hurts when you find people, especially the youth, purposively destroying a road. We have seen youth rioters digging out the tarmac. We have seen others uprooting a whole railway line. In fact, if you were to tell them to assist you to uproot it, they would not do it, but during riots, they uproot it. Guardrails are destroyed or stolen. Through public participation and sensitisation, citizens will be made to see the value because there is a purpose of having road signs. There is a purpose of having guardrails. They, therefore, expose motorists and even pedestrians to danger. The road levy should be used to maintain roads. We have a culture of neglecting roads until they are totally impassable and then we redo them afresh. There is a popular Kiswahili saying that usipoziba ufa utajenga ukuta. I do not know why we wait until the very last minute. 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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