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    "id": 775616,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I hope our colleagues in the Senate will also this time take their role effectively and pass this Bill within the time provided for in the Standing Orders. I am sure the Committee will do so. What we did in this Bill, and the Chair will agree with me, is that the amendments done by the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing in the 11th Parliament have been carried on board. It has very little left for amendments. I am sure the Chair will agree with me. This Bill, as it is printed has the amendments of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and the amendments made on the Floor. Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ was one of the active Members when we were doing this Bill at the Committee of the whole House. His amendments and the amendments of other Members have been carried on board. Let us all enrich it. Please, if you dispute that we have done roads, some of you will be ashamed because we will go to your constituencies and we will be launching road networks. I will be there with the Minister and the President. When we launch a road network in your constituency, I do not know where you will hide. We will do it in Western, Nyanza, North Eastern, Central, Rift and Coast. We are a Government that believes in equity. Whether you voted for us or not, you will get a road because you are a taxpayer. My good friend, the Member for Mwingi Central, and I enjoy a wide range of road all the way from Thika to my constituency. Over 20 constituencies are served by that road. We rarely get potholes. When we get them, we ask KeNHA to do it. If you travel from here, Nairobi- Mombasa Highway is being transformed to an eight-lane dual carriageway funded by the Kenya Government and donors. The Nairobi-Thika Highway and Thika-Murang’a-Nyeri Highway are being done into a dual carriageway. Construction for a dual carriageway for Nairobi-Nakuru Highway is already ongoing. Those who have eyes can see. Those who have ears can hear, but those who are blind will never see. Those who have no ears to hear, you can as well remain where you are. We are telling you Kenya is going places. Kenya is developing under the able leadership of one President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto. With those many remarks, I need to go and have tea, the matanga type and the mandazi, and ask the able Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing to second."
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