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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I rise to support the Bill. This Bill will go a long way to cure a lot of issues which have been bedevilling the roads infrastructure in the country and at the same time to at least bring harmony and spell out the boundaries and levels which each and every arm of government should go. Currently the road network in this country and the infrastructure for that matter is wanting. The Government needs to spend a lot and also do proper planning and at the end of the day put a lot of money so that we can cope with the current influx of road usage. If I may recall, the Thika Superhighway, when it was being constructed during the Kibaki era, we thought it would solve a lot of problems with congestion of our roads. But to date, those snarl-ups in the morning and evening are still being experienced. This is because once a project has been muted to be done, it has no timeframe on when it should be done, and by the time the government is prepared to do the same, it has been overtaken by events. Therefore, it is prudent that once this law is in place, once a project has been started it must be done to the end. Some of my colleagues have mentioned it here: the Government is very ambitious and they are doing roads across the country; and I believe it is across the country. Most of the projects under the 10,000 kilometres project which were started by the Jubilee Government are yet to be completed; others are yet to be started. This is where the financing should come in properly. The Ministry should give its projections in the Budget, which should strictly be adhered to by the Ministry of Roads through the National Treasury so that at the end of the day, if a road has been allocated money that money should be there, it should not be paper, so that that work can be done. Today I have spent the whole day trying to quell uprisings in my constituency where there is a road which had been given money through the Ministry of Tourism, and because of the bureaucracy in the Ministry of Infrastructure and in KeRRA, they jumbled with figures and papers until at the end of the day that funding was overtaken by events and now they have to go back to the National Treasury to ask for the same. Whereas they do not know that on the ground people are asking: Where is the road which was promised to us? At the end of the day, the person at the receiving end is the Member of Parliament. They say the MP has not done this. The 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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