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    "content": "Sen. (Eng.) Ephraim Maina Kirinyaga, who must give us his expertise on matters of roads in the counties. In future, when we draft the law on matters related to grants and levies that go to the counties, we need to ensure that if you go to Nyeri County you can see what the money is doing. However, if it goes like a pool of money, including the other money, there will be no accountability. It will be easy for one to use it on other things or you will have double budgeting. A county could budget for a certain road but then takes the money and uses it on another road. That is why we have corruption because people will eat money that was meant for a certain road. They will get the roads levy and use it to construct a certain road yet that money is for maintaining some road. Having mentioned some allocations that go to Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), I am glad the NTSA is being given money for purposes of road safety. They will get 1 per cent and 2 per cent will go to recurrent expenditure by the board. I would like to mention the last two things. First, the Committee has done a good job in making sure that this law will be amended to accommodate county governments when it comes to their representation in the Public Roads Standards Board and that is commendable. When the Bill goes to the Committee of the Whole, we must amend the law to accommodate those provisions. Secondly, for qualifications to the Public Roads Standards Board, I disagree with the amendments that have come from the National Assembly that opens the door outside qualified engineers to be the managing director. This is because there are standards requirements that must be followed. In my honest opinion, that qualification should remain and we should have engineers. We are lawyers and we can be selfish and open it for lawyers because the Bill talks about lawyers, accountants and all the merchants. Let us focus on qualified engineers."
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