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    "id": 667407,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Much as there is going to be classification, we want the proposed Kenya National Secondary Roads Authority, which is going to take care of the county roads, to have the machinery put in regional centres. In the past, we had machinery and equipment that helped us in road reconstruction being taken upcountry all the way from Nairobi. It is better for us to have the equipment decentralised to regional centres so that we can access them for construction purposes. In the past, we used to travel all the way to Nairobi to ask for equipment. Most of the time, we were told that the equipment had gone somewhere else. There was no coordination. Therefore, I request that that be done as we wait for what is going to happen. Those of us who travel to western Kenya – to the so-called “Northern Corridor” – have a problem. The road is very narrow and it takes almost four hours to travel by road from Nairobi to Nakuru because of the congestion on the road. I hope that with this clarification, we will have lanes set aside for motorcycles and pedestrians so that trucks take one part of the road and motorcycles take the other to avoid accidents. We have been seeing nasty accidents on the roads because motorcycles and motor vehicles compete for the small space. As I said, those who use the Northern Corridor road take four hours to travel from Nairobi to Nakuru, and another four hours to get to Eldoret. This is because the road was not designed properly. The road to Kisumu has the same problem. We ask the proposed Authority to look at this and ensure that the Nairobi- Nakuru-Eldoret Road is a dual carriage road up to Busia or Malaba. That will bring sanity on the road and lessen the accidents that occur. This is because there are too many accidents. The other day, I saw three motorcycles crashed at different spots just because of competing for space. The Northern Corridor takes trucks all the way to Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and Uganda. Some of them go up to Ethiopia. We have to do something about the road 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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