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    "id": 719131,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this Petition by Hon. Sara Korere. It is from the Petitioners in Laikipia County. It is very unfortunate to see taxpayers’ money going to waste through either unsupervised work or supervised work whose quality is not ascertained and guaranteed to be commensurate with the money that is spent by the taxpayers. I say this because when a road is done and it does not have a lifespan in terms of warranty and taxpayers have to spend money several years later, it is a waste of resources. We passed a law in this House that gave the local contractors an opportunity to construct roads that cost less than Kshs1 billion in terms of contractual obligations. There have been a lot of problems where we have very many loopholes in terms of workmanship. A road is done and several months down the line, the tarmac comes off and residents start constructing other roads beside the main road because there is nothing as bad as a tarmac that has come off. It is worse than a marram road. A case in point is in a place called Meru National Park between Maua and Murera Gate where a contractor was tasked to do the road and finished around 2009. Today, you have to totally avoid that road if you want to access Meru National Park. It is making it very hard for people to visit the Park and for the Kenya Government to get any revenue from the park. The other issue is in connection with the classification of roads. In this Parliament, we passed a Bill that stipulated that we have to classify roads and know what will be maintained by The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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