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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyoro",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "I will go to some of the issues that I noted. It is always work in progress even on Bills. I will speak about these issues, so that Members can think about them deeply because they concern us deeply. I have seen the issue of public participation in Part I, (4)(c) of the Bill. There is no better public participation than the one we do as Members of Parliament especially if we are talking about the NG-CDF. I am sure most of the Members of this House have committees under KeRRA called the constituency roads committees. If you remember in the previous classification of the authorities, KURA was to deal with roads that are within the now-defunct municipalities. Like in my constituency, some roads fall under KURA while others are under KeRRA. I also think that in terms of public participation, we also need to establish committees under KURA. As it is now, it acts as a cabal of professionals-only from the regional managers and the engineers, without proper input from the communities. As we improve this Bill, it is high time we considered having some kind of committees also under KURA. On the classification of roads, I have a great concern as a Member from a rural constituency. Previously, and I am sure engineers go through this, Class A roads were transnational roads maybe from Uganda to Kenya. Class B roads went through the previous provinces. Class C roads went through the previous districts. Class D roads went through the major markets. Class E is the category of roads, as it is in the current classification, that gives us a lot of political capital. These are the roads that we gravel and grade. I want to tell the Members that if we let Class E roads go, we will come back here to cry to amend the Bill. It is high time we included Class E roads under KeRRA because that is the bulk of the work we do. Like in my constituency, Class D roads and above, I am only left with two roads to maintain under KeRRA. So, even before we pass this Bill, we should think about Class E roads because that is most of the work that we do as Members. On the same, we get equal distribution of money especially under KeRRA in every constituency. As Members, we have to keep lobbying for tarmacked roads. I also think we need to come up with a formula. If we have 290 constituencies and the Government of Kenya is tarmacking 2000 kilometres of road every year, we can also do the same. We should appropriate those monies equally. If we have done 9000 kilometres of road in the past four or five years, and we distribute them equally, I am sure even the questions we are getting from some of the Members will not be there anymore. Therefore, we also need to think about equity and equal distribution of resources especially, the tarmac road resources equally in the constituencies. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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