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    "id": 682828,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will talk generally about the four petitions. I have listened to the able Chair talk and appreciate the work he and his Committee are doing. There is a problem generally with the management of road infrastructure in this country. I want to ask whether it has to take a petition to this Parliament for the Ministry or agencies to do what they are supposed to. We are being told that the Ministry is releasing some money from the Emergency Fund to go towards re-carpeting the Maua-Meru Road in Igembe Central, which is fine. Does the Ministry not have an idea of the total road map in the country to understand which works are ongoing and which ones have delayed? A case in point is a bridge which is connecting Rangara Trading Centre in my constituency and Siaya Town in Alego Usonga. That bridge has been under construction for the last 10 years or more. It has stalled and is a key bridge linking two major towns and yet nobody is acting. There is another bridge connecting my constituency and Butere. I have raised this matter for the last four years and nothing is happening. Can we be told what it takes for the Government agencies to do their work? There is clear disparity in the allocation of funding for road maintenance and construction in this country. I do not understand what economists in this Government are thinking. Do they think they can develop a country by developing infrastructure in some sections whilst ignoring others? Is this feasible? This matter needs to be addressed even further than the petitions made."
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