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    "content": "the moon than on that road. Cars have now created alleys in the bush away from the tarmac because the tarmac is so broken that if you drive your car from Lodwar to Kakuma, you will have no car on arrival. It is just because of negligence and dereliction of duty by those who are charged with responsibility. For those gentlemen and ladies in Government across the Floor; we want to see in this Bill a substantial sum of money in the Budget kept aside for repairs and maintenance of roads. Equally important, we must obligate the State and county governments that roads are due for maintenance periodically at regular intervals, so that when a road is constructed, in about five years, you have to recarpet or reseal it. Then you let it run on for another five years and then you re-carpet or reseal it. That way, we will spend much sell money. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not understand the cost we hear about roads, for instance, from Thika to Nairobi, Kshs40 billion. It is mind boggling. We are now hearing of a road from Mombasa to Nairobi being concessioned for Kshs300 billion. We now talk about money as if it was the old Zimbabwe of President Mugabe where they had useless money with so many zeros. There was a shilling note with 26, zeros. A Minister friend of mine told me that they had denominations to something called a gillion. I asked her what it meant and she told me that a gillion is a note with 26 zeros. How much can you buy with this? She said that if she goes to a supermarket, she does not need a basket. She will spend it and carry the goods in her hand. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we do not want to spend money as if it has no value. If we want to construct a highway - this is my last point - I want to see this country constructing a dual carriage from Mombasa to Malaba; this is the artery of our economy. Our number one trading partner is Uganda and beyond; Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Congo. Almost 60 per cent of our trade goes along this road. You have seen a simple incident in Makindu results to a traffic jam of 20 kilometers because there is no alternative road. We want to see a dual carriage from Mombasa to Malaba, Mau Summit to Kisumu, Mau Summit to Isebania and Nairobi to Moyale, so that we open up. If the money wasted on the Standard Gauge Railway was invested on roads in this country, we would have registered 20 to 30 per cent Gross Domestic Product growth. Nonetheless, our priorities are always personal driven, misguided and sometimes make no sense. However, this is the country we live in. I beg to support."
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