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    "id": 776557,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/776557/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ekomwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. I stand to support this Bill. It is very fundamental especially in the areas where we come from. I want to thank the able Chair of the Departmental Committee for Transport, Public Works and Housing. You have really shown competence. This is because people have been thinking that you are only informed about the issue of security. However, you have now proven to Kenyans that you can also be in charge of roads. We have made very fundamental laws in this House but it becomes a problem to enforce them. One such issue that has become a thorn in the flesh is the fact that many Kenyans have been losing their homes just because of poor planning. There is the assumption that Kenyans are living along the road reserves. However, this is due to failure by the law enforcement agencies. Before you construct a road or expand an existing road, we must create public awareness; Kenyans must be warned against living on road reserves. Some Kenyans are ignorant. After they have built houses and shops, they are demolished yet that was their only property. The authorities we are creating must enforce this law. As they plan road construction projects, they must tell the people on time not to occupy road reserves. The Government has allocated funds to these roads. Secondly, we have awarded contracts to contractors but Kenyans have been denied justice because contractors take time to finish what they are supposed to do. Some of them take two years to complete a road when they are supposed to take one year yet Kenyans are waiting for it. Kenyans have the right to get these services at the right time. When a contractor takes six years to do a road that should have taken a year, do you not think that is a way of denying Kenyans justice? This should be corrected by the authorities we are putting in place."
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