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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "citizens on the ground do not know exactly who should do the road. Therefore, this Bill should spell out clearly who is supposed to do these roads. And it should be known and put clearly that the MP is an oversight public officer who is the eyes of the public and who needs to be told what is happening and when so that when the public demands to know, as the mouthpiece of the public, one can give that information. The Bill is also going in the right direction of saying when you acquire people’s land for the purpose of putting up a road or a bridge or a railway line, there is a clear way of compensating those people. There are those pipelines which pass along the roads. The Bill has also spelt it out clearly. Presently, you will find that if a road is passing a certain place, the contractor will come and damage pipelines which had been laid down by the public with a lot of expenses. They destroy the pipelines. They do not repair the same. People go without water and they have to go back to their pockets or seek donors or do harambees so that they can lay that line again. The contractor should be made to repair the pipes. Also, if need be, the land which has been acquired, if it is private land, it needs to be compensated for the purposes of doing the road. When a contractor has been given work, usually in their bills of quantities, they put money so that they can do a road which can be used temporarily as they construct the main road. But these days they end up closing the roads completely. They inconvenience the public by closing the roads under the guise that they are making a new road. Despite the fact that we are doing good roads, yes it is welcome, but other day-to-day activities of the people of the area should be put into account and should be respected and should not be interrupted in any way so that at least people can do their work easily without interruptions. Currently, the way the roads are classified has made it difficult for us to know which road should be done by the county government and which one should be done by the national Government. Sometime people complain and say that the MP is not doing a road going to a certain village. When you tell them the road belongs to the county government, nobody listens to you. The MCA might use it as a scapegoat and fail to do that small road or footpath or bridge in the guise that it should be done by the MP. Therefore, I propose this Bill should also include, in the Public Roads Standards Board, MCAs so that when these things are being done, it is easy for them to identify those small roads inside the villages which need to be repaired. There are roads which connect constituencies and others connect counties. Today before I came to this House this afternoon, I was in the Office of Cabinet Secretary in charge of infrastructure, complaining that there are roads in my constituency which have already been put under the county government whereas they have been being maintained by KeRRA which is about to be disbanded by this Bill and get the national secondary roads authority which will handle roads which connect constituencies with others. I am already connecting my constituency from Gachanine to Isiolo and it joins another country, but you find it being put as a road under the county government. When we interlock these roads, it becomes very difficult to identify which road should be done by this or the other government. Therefore, I strongly believe if this Bill is put into practice once we pass it, it will bring a lot of sanity in our roads. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, initially, we did not have motorbikes in this country. Today, we have an influx of those motorcycles which are used as a mode of transport. We have millions of them today. Most of the time, they use the same roads with heavy commercial vehicles and fast-moving vehicles which causes accidents day in, day out. When we make new 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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