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    "id": 667247,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "right in the middle of the road reserve, tomorrow when you want to do a dual carriageway, you need to undo the road which is right in the middle, or when you need to go to the other side you have to encroach on other people‟s property. We will be bringing amendments to address the designs. It is unfortunate that when you do a road you do not leave a wayleave for purposes of other amenities like piping, cabling. This means that if you develop the road after five or 10 years you have to remove all the installation was done and this becomes very expensive. So, it is important that when the designers are designing roads, let them leave a wayleave where other services will be catered for such that in future when you want to develop such road to enhance its standard and useability, then we will not destroy, say, the piping. We need our designers to be more proactive and give us road designs that we will not have to destroy. Part III on classification is very important. When we talk about classification, yes we want to improve some of the areas that do not have an inch of tarmac, but at the same time some of those areas require towns. As the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing was saying, it is important for us to improve the roads in the urban areas. This is because these are centres where we create a lot of wealth for the country which can be used to develop roads in rural areas. We will be sharing on how many kilometres are needed in urban areas. If you look at the list of roads that we have from the Ministry, you will find that a constituency like Nakuru East which is an urban place has not been given a kilometre just because we have 80 kilometres. This is the case and yet it is a hub of economic activities which create a lot of wealth for Nakuru County and the country in general. So, when we want to improve roads it should be considered not by virtue that it has already developed but to enhance that. Otherwise, if we kill these urban areas, in future, we might not have that money to develop rural areas. So, the Ministry should consider urban areas. I am of the view that the Bill, as it is, wants to kill KURA which is specifically for urban areas. I thank the Chairman when he said that they have reconsidered not to kill KURA and retain it as it is so that we can continue. If KURA was to go then most of the urban roads will be in very bad conditions. The KeRRA handles rural roads and it is overwhelmed by the work it has such that it might not be able to handle urban roads. So, it is important, as the Chair, said that we retain the KURA, which will take into consideration the urban roads. We have been pushing KeNHA to put up some bumps in black spots and it took two years to get two bumps on a highway. We will be wrong if we leave the work which was being done by KURA to KeNHA or KeRRA."
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