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    "id": 667516,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/667516/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "if we have a supervisory provision where monitoring of the works will be done by an independent Authority, so that we have guarantee of standard work and proper articulation of contracts between the authorities and the contractors. We have talked about wastage of resources through corruption. In this sector, we have bad stories about corruption and wastage of resources. We have roads that were supposed to have been tarmacked 20 years ago, but they have not even seen murram. Some of these roads are in Shinyalu Constituency. The Khayega-Shinyalu-Chepsonoi Road is an important old road which connects several communities and townships. It is supposed to have been tarmacked long time ago, but it has never been done. I hope it will be tarmacked soon because the responsibility has been bestowed upon the county government and resources have been allocated for the construction of roads such as the Kambi Mwanza-Vihiga-Rondo Road and Chepsonoi as well. The Khayega-Kaimosi Road is an important link road. It links communities, markets and certain functionalities. With a policy framework like this, we should be careful so that we are specific on linking areas. We should never have hanging roads that end at a river because a bridge cannot be constructed. Roads should not be constructed and stopped at a boundary as if citizens from one community should not communicate with citizens from the other community. This Bill should help us to develop viable link roads. We should have roads that connect with others to enable people to interact because Kenyan communities have a social and a moral responsibility to live and share opportunities with each other. The road network will help us actualise this. I would like to talk about public participation. For us to achieve the ideals of this Bill, we should inject public participation in the implementation process so that people can participate in deciding the kind of infrastructure they want. People should participate in deciding the time when such works should be finished and on the guarantee period that the roads should be useable. Some roads are constructed, but cannot be used at the end of the year they are commissioned. Contractors should give guarantee. If the work which contractors have done cannot last for a certain period of time, they should be made to go back to that road and construct it again. This will solve the issue of wastage. Members of the public provide social audit on such works. We have lost lives due to road works that have not been done properly. I recall a bridge which caved in on the Londiani-Muhoroni Road, causing a lot of wastage of resources. Businessmen lose a lot of money on transport and cannot deliver their goods when there is no road network."
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