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    "content": "happening between Museum Hill and Westlands. We must avoid planning then fail to respect those plans. A good plan is nothing if it is not implemented to the letter. This Bill sets up a forum that will monitor and oversee physical planning, prepare status reports on the preparation and implementation of physical development plans, develop monitoring networks and formulate oversight parameters relating to physical planning and so on. This is the only way we can avoid the situation where people build residential houses next to the sewer and on road reserves. For instance, the highway from Mombasa to Malaba - this road was planned to be a dual carriage, carrying the artery of our economy. The other day, I was reading that Malaba border point is the single busiest border crossing in the entire Africa carrying traffic from Mombasa to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and beyond. Yet if you look at that highway, starting with Eldoret town; the section of what they call Uganda Road in town. How do you ever expand that to a dual carriage without massive destruction of property? At least for Eldoret, it is a town we can excuse ourselves, we can do a bypass. Along the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway, there is a little town called Kikopey where there is smoke. I am told people stop there to eat meat. At Kikopey, people are building right up to the shoulders of the road. This road, even from the plans that we have been shown over and over will be a dual carriage any time. In fact, if it were not for corruption and contradictions in our planning and implementation of plans, one would expect that by today we should have a dual carriage highway from Mombasa to Malaba. That will, probably, give us a 10 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth overnight. You sit and hear Sen. Karaba and Sen. Kembi-Gitura argue as to whether there should be a dual carriage passing through Murang’a or Makutano. Of course, I am sure you have heard them engaging in unhelpful quarrels here. Eventually when the President wants to please both of them he will say, “What are you quarreling about, you will have both dual carriages.” This is at the expense of national interest. This is the danger we have in this country. So, there will be a dual carriage from Kenol through some place called Maragua then end up in Sagana. Then another one from Kenol to Makutano - Sen. Karaba has thrown his weight around - it will, therefore, pass through Kirinyaga and end up in Embu. Not that we do not need those roads, but what are our priorities? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I believe as the Senator for Nandi from time to time when you are not part of the sky team, you drive home."
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