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    "id": 667433,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbiuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 79,
        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": "The most critical part of this Bill is to remove ambiguity and the clashes that have been there between the two levels of Government. They will be cured once and for all. I urge my colleagues in this House to ensure that whatever roads are classified under the national Government become a preserve of the national Government to ensure that they are constructed. Let us not bite more than we can swallow for the national and secondary roads. Those are the roads that link one county or urban center to another. Let us also develop some good programmes to ensure that the national Government undertakes very precise and predictable ways of ensuring that rural access roads are properly upgraded into all-weather roads. That way, rural access roads will be left under the preserve of the county government. The other major link will be left under the national Government. This is an extremely timely Bill. It will ensure that we have two authorities from the current three authorities: The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) and Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA). We are merging them to two to be left with the two levels. We should realise that we are operating under the new constitutional dispensation. It is not the role of the Members of Parliament (MPs) to manage construction of roads. Our role is oversight. Our role is to ensure that what the national Government is supposed to do in our respective constituencies is done in a systematic and professional way. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Bill."
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