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    "content": "Committee. Therefore, we need to ensure that the stakeholders – the people who use our roads - are represented in these boards. On the issue of maintenances that I have talked about, we now have the peak tourism season and most tourists who come to this country access the Maasai Mara through the Nairobi-Mai Mahiu-Narok Road. I do not need to fly to my county; I go by road. Look at the state of the road that was constructed five years ago. The potholes on the road are like gullies. I have made a point to personally call the Director-General of KeNHA seeking for his intervention. It is a shame for tourists to travel on a road which has those kinds of potholes, when all that is needed is maintenances. What does it take to repair potholes on the road? He does not need to seek for more money. If he is a diligent Director-General, he should have made provision for road maintenance. If you travel to the UK and Australia, you will find roads being repaired every day and night. However, in this country, we leave the roads to be completely dilapidated and impassable and then rush to the National Assembly for more funds. That should not be the case. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other issue is the idea of putting up toll stations on our national roads. The people who drive cars in this county have grown tremendously in the last five years or so. We used to have a toll station on Thika Road and it used to create massive traffic jams. What will happen if we were to create one on the Nairobi- Nakuru Road, which does not have six lanes? Thika Road can be managed because there are about four lanes. The Cabinet Secretary is then given a blanket cheque to designate areas for toll stations. Madam Temporary Speaker, the problem we have in this country is that people enter planes and go to the UK where there are eight toll stations in roads where they are six to eight lanes. In such cases there are no traffic jams. The highway that connects New York City to Manhattan has eight lanes and a toll station. If toll stations were to be introduced on the Nairobi-Nakuru Road, which has a single lane, we will have terrible traffic jams. Over and above that, we are also increasing the burden of taxation. Already, the fuel levy constitutes much of the money that we pay for fuel. When a litre costs Kshs100 about 50 per cent goes to the fuel levy. On top of that, we want to overburden Kenyans by putting up toll stations."
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