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    "id": 707229,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to support the Motion for adoption of this Report of the Standing Committee on Roads and Transportation. As a Member of the Committee, I attended the workshop during the Road Stakeholders Forum which was held at The Safari Park Hotel on 3rd February, 2016. The Forum was convened to address a very serious issue because as we know, for any country to develop, the infrastructure has to be in place. One of the infrastructures which have to be in place is the roads. In this case, we had to get the stakeholders together. These were the State departments concerned and the Council of Governors (CoG) which is the second level of government. The CoG has a stake in this because in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, the roads function is shared between the counties and the national Government and the Constitution defines roads in Kenya as national trunk roads and county roads. If I could remember, counties had agitated to have the roads function transferred to them. We got 39 counties which asked that the roads function be transferred to them and the Senate instructed the Transition Authority (TA) to do the same. The TA had asked the Attorney-General to ensure that but since it was not done, the CoG ended up in court and the court instructed the same to be done. The TA has gazetted roads stating very clearly what county roads and national trunk roads are. The Gazette Notice states that Classes A, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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