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    "id": 776528,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Speaker for giving the opportunity to make my contribution. Let me also express my gratitude to the Committee and its Chair. It is not the first time in the 12th Parliament a Committee has not presented a report. Even in the last Parliament we had a big problem of Committees not presenting reports, but this Committee has done its report very well. I stand to support this Bill because it does what all sectors in Kenya should look at. It seeks to align the legal framework for management of roads to the Constitution. Many sectors have not done what this Bill seeks to do. The Fifth Schedule mandates this Parliament to put laws in place and to align them to the Constitution. With the exception of the Health Act, which has not been fully implemented, we have not seen that done. This Bill seeks to make that alignment. It goes a long way to do that. With this, the Fourth Schedule will be adhered to in terms of road management. The Roads Act may have to be looked at because it has been giving us problems. The Bill looks at the old structures like the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and Kenya Highways Authority (KeNHA). They were operating in a centralised system before and when we changed to the new Constitution, they brought a lot of problems. Many times, in the last Parliament, governors went to court to stop the construction of roads because it was not clear which roads belonged to who. Now that this Bill has done that, things will be clearer. The Bill goes ahead to create a standard board. This is something we must look for across the sector. 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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