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    "id": 776355,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I was almost asking myself whether this House considers gender balance because I have heard a lot of contributions from men and yet we know that women are also road users. I need the women’s voice to be heard. From the outset, I support the Bill. I have gone through the Report of the Committee and I can see the principal object of the Bill is to give effect to the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. According to the layman’s understanding, the Bill mainly provides for the classification of roads between the national Government and county government and assigning them in their unique functionalities. You may have noticed that during the last three or four years, starting from the Kibaki Government, a lot of resources have been used to improve our roads and the road network. It is important that there is harmonisation especially on road maintenance. I want to point out something about the work done by KeNHA in road maintenance. I would like to cite Thika Road. It is a great road, but poorly maintained. Sometimes when it rains, it floods. It is high time we had proper communication and consultation on how to maintain our roads because we invest a lot in them. We have very good roads, but sometimes when they are not well maintained, they become dangerous. For most roads, you will find that drainage is not well done, the general sweeping and marking of the roads is not done. So, the roads become a source of many road accidents. I am excited, looking at this Bill, to see that there is a requirement for long-distance vehicles to have recorders. It is important for them to have recorders because truck drivers either due to pressure of work or because of wanting to get to the port early enough, put in many hours on the road. As a result, they cause accidents. It is not because they are willing to do so, but it is 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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