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    "id": 776680,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/776680/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ng'ayu Kioni",
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    "content": "I want to join Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy. If we are not careful, Members will literally become irrelevant on issues of roads in this classification. If it was possible to get back class B roads to the national Government, then we can influence the development, improvement and maintenance of roads within our constituencies. I have read this Bill. As it is now, Ndaragwa Constituency is completely outside the ambit of the national Government. We have nothing that can be called a national trunk road within the secondary or the primary category. If that is the case, then we will be left at the mercy of the governor and the county assembly. This is not a comfortable thing. I have been with them for the last six months, and all that I can see happening is unnecessary competition which will not help us in any way. For Members of Parliament to be relevant, we need to be careful, so that we do not take all the roads to the county government. If we want our roads within our constituencies tarmacked, the only agency that will do it is the national Government. The county governors will not tarmack any roads in our area. They will continue to murram and add murram on top of another, and it will continue. I do not know what you expect more. I am fearful because if this classification is not checked again, then we will never get any road tarmacked in Ndaragwa Constituency, unless it will be under a special programme. All the roads have been taken over. They are all called feeder roads from this classification. It is something that we, as Members, must pay attention to because we can easily legislate ourselves out of the road sector. That will not be a very kind thing."
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