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    "id": 719129,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719129/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. One thing that is really unfortunate is that many times, it is like we are planning to fail, particularly in the area of infrastructure. It is not good to know that you are constructing a road that will last for 10 years and then, within that period, you do nothing and you do not prepare for the fact that in the 11th year, there will be no road. This is really a problem in this country. I have two cases in my constituency. First, one of the test cases of the forerunner of what we call the low volume seal roads programme was in my constituency in Bondo. It was to construct around six or so kilometres of a road. It indicated very clearly that there were problems with this low volume seal roads programme. Since that road was done over 10 years ago, it has been ignored. Rather than appreciate that it was an experimental road that needs to be taken up when what was supposed to be done failed, the road has been in a pathetic situation until the other day when we were given Kshs4 million to seal the tarmac which cannot work. Last week, we had to rip the road off the tarmac. This is a very bad way to plan infrastructure. A similar one is a causeway in my constituency that was designed to last less than 20 years. That causeway is now falling apart because 20 years have passed and nothing has happened. We just stare at it. I have brought up this issue more than twice or thrice, but it is like nothing is happening in that section of the country."
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