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    "id": 667443,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. H. K. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise in support of this Bill. The first time I appeared before the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, I was agitating for the tarmacking of roads in Gatanga. There was laughter in that Committee to the effect that all roads in Gatanga are tarmacked and that there are no potholes. The truth of the matter is that I do not have more than 50 kilometres of tarmac road in my constituency. I had even petitioned Parliament to go to Gatanga to see the hitherto belief that Gatanga is very developed in terms of roads. In support of this Bill, I want to say that roads are one of the universal indicators of development. World over, roads, infrastructure, health and communication are some of the indicators of development. In the developed world, the level of infrastructure, particularly roads, is so high and pronounced. But when you come to countries like Kenya, then you can see exactly what we are talking about. This Bill is recognition that roads play a major role in economic growth and development of a country. The fact that we have a new constitutional dispensation order, particularly the Fourth Schedule, where we are now talking about county governments and the national Government, it is important that we support this Bill because it recognises the two levels of Government."
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