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    "id": 667412,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/667412/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Momanyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ben George Orori Momanyi",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity so that I can also contribute to this very important Bill. Some of my colleagues have said a number of our constituencies do not have a single kilometre of tarmac road. It is important for us to come up with these kinds of boards so that we can have some uniformity on how roads are constructed in this country. Like in my constituency of Borabu, we have had the Head of State coming there twice and promising that the Nyansiongo-Raitigo-Metamaywa Road would be tarmacked. It is almost two years now and we have not seen any works on that road. It becomes very cumbersome going to every office asking for favours and trying to find how far some of these road projects are. If we had a competent authority channelling answers to the questions that we raise, it would help most of us so that we know exactly what we should tell our people. It is also important that this body should be able to regulate how funding is done so that we have funding done almost everywhere in this country. As one of my colleagues has said, we do not even know as Members of the National Assembly the roads which we are supposed to do. You find residents of a constituency sometimes making noise about every road without knowing whether it is a national or county road. It is therefore important that we have regulations in place and a proper body which should be updating us about these road networks. You will also find that most of the roads are poorly designed. Quite a number of roads do not have proper bus stops. Therefore, matatus and buses stop anywhere, even in the middle of the road, thereby causing accidents. Therefore, it is important for classification to be properly done and to have a proper board which should be giving us updates on our roads. It is also important for the national Government to know that this country belongs to all Kenyans and we should have roads done everywhere in the country unlike instances where we see roads done in certain areas in this country while neglecting some parts of the country. I support this Bill and we should see its fruits as soon as possible so that we do not just pass some of these Bills and then they do not see the light of the day. This is a good Bill. Let us have it implemented as soon as it is passed. Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance."
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