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    "content": "from where my friend comes from; Mungiki, Baghdad and other criminal gangs because our youth are not properly engaged. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we had the framework of utilizing available local materials and capacity, we could then employ many youths using the road sector budget. These are the policies that I want the Committee and the Ministry to sit down and come up with. It is not enough to say that you are building a road. What are the social benefits of building these roads to the community and to the country called Kenya? It is not enough to say that we have built a road and then we call it a beautiful road, yet it was never built with any local materials or local labour, including that of the youth, who could do some of the simple things. That should not be the benefit that we should be looking for when we are enacting this Bill. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is high time that the Ministry calls upon engineers to ensure that we have a proper research organisation to conduct research on roads. For instance, they should find out what resources we can get in Marsabit or Mombasa; where we can employ them and which classes of roads we can employ these resources. Those are the kinds of things that we should be doing. We should not be guided by people who are commercially driven. The Ministry should be ahead of the people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other thing is procurement. We think that when we talk of open tender, it can come and cover up for the conscience of men. It cannot. This is because something can be called an open tender when it has been coordinated between a few individuals, such that the price being quoted is still not the price that you expect. Therefore, I would like to see a regulation – by engaging the national Treasury and the relevant Ministry especially in the road sector – where if a road is found to be too 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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