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"content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I actually thought that I was not going to get this chance. You are gracious. This is a very important Bill. I am glad the Chairman of the Committee just walked in. As we discuss these Bills, it is important for the Chair and the Vice-Chair or a Member of the Committee to be in the House, so that, at least, somebody takes note of our observations. When we build roads, we build them for our people to access their produce and get to different destinations. Secondly, the roads are built for safety. It is important that safety must be addressed as the cornerstone of any road, whether it is KeRRA, KeNHA, KURA or even those secondary roads. Thirdly, it is about land. Roads are built on land, either belonging to people or fallow land that had already been surveyed that a road at some time in the future will pass there. When we look at this Bill, there are many things that come to mind. There are many issues that we must raise during the Committee of the whole House stage. Like what Hon. Mulyungi who just talked before me has said, during the Third Reading, it is important that many of us are in the House in order to seriously contribute to this Bill. This is because it affects all of 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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