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    "id": 667241,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/667241/?format=api",
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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": "The Authorities concerned should use the road levy to repair and maintain roads frequently to avoid doing them afresh. I am also happy with Clause 92(b) that talks about compensation. Sometimes members of the public are requested to surrender their pieces of land for the purpose of constructing roads to the right width. I emphasise that before the roads are constructed, the owners of the land should be compensated. For example, the second phase of the Sotik to Ndanai Road is from Ndanai to Gorgor. I do not have the full information, but speculations are that the owners of the land used in the second phase have partly been paid while those who were affected by the first phase are still waiting for compensation. It is good for us to have public participation for people to know the rates used, so that they do not say that their big pieces of land were taken away for free. They should not say that they received less while so and so received more. This is simply because of lack of information. The idea of compensation for land used on road construction has been raised over and over again and it needs to be seriously looked into. I thank the Jubilee Government because of their commitment to construct 10,000 kilometres of roads across the country. In Bomet County, we benefited from that and got one major road that will cut across four constituencies from Daraja Sita, Chebole, Kanusin all the way to Chebuno and Emurua Dikirr. For record purposes, one of the constituencies in Bomet does not have even a metre of tarmac road and I am waiting to see how the people will be excited when they see this particular tarmac road. Finally, Kenya at 50 years, we should seriously think about bypasses to avoid the serious traffic jams that we experience daily. This is costly in terms of fuel used, time and emissions. This is a very good Bill. For it to succeed, we should ensure that counties and the national Government do their job. We also need to give them resources for them to do that."
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