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    "id": 811454,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am a very disappointed man because we have these authorities and boards, but they have not been functional. Why do we need to change the name of Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) and Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA)? They have been there, but they have not done anything. Now we are being told to call them Kenya national and so on. They are already “national”, but they have not performing. Therefore, I do not know what difference it will make. Instead of giving the money to the locals where it can be used by the county government, even if some of them are dysfunctional, but at least, it would be better off. A county like Wajir County has seen a tarmac road for the first time when devolution started. We are now talking about classification. We have had classification A, B and C roads from 1963 to date and we have not seen any tarmac or any good roads. We are living on cattle trucks. A road is classified as A, but it has nothing; even bush clearing is not done. We want now to rename these authorities and create Public Roads Standards Boards. These things are not functional. We want to create four Boards which you want to give people money; second some staff there from the national Government. Deputy Directors would be deployed from the Treasury, Transport and Roads. The same guys will be on all these boards. What are they going to perform because the Principle Secretary will never attend any of these board meetings? I have been a board member of organizations and there are officers who come from the national Government. They only come to earn their small allowances and they do not even say anything. The people who function are those ones who come from the private sector or other organizations. However, this is no longer in existence because three quarters of the board members are national Government officials. What change will it bring? Madam Temporary Speaker, Kenyans are good in writing papers. However, when it comes to implementation, we are zero. This is where we are going right now. We want to create four authorities. What are the other three authorities doing? They have engineers. If they cannot even set the standards, why do we want to create another board to do so? I call that wastage of the little resources we have. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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