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    "id": 813597,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, AWARE that infrastructure development and specifically, construction of roads is a key pillar of Kenya’s vision 2030 whose objective is to spur movement of people and goods, promote trade and economic activities, encourage development and attract investments; NOTING that there is a very strong correlation between a country's economic development and the quality of its road network; CONCERNED that Government’s efforts to expand the roads infrastructure are mainly focused on the urban and peri-urban areas of the country thus leaving rural areas with dilapidated or no access roads; FURTHER CONCERNED that 55 years since independence and over five years after institutionalization of devolution, the Country’s roads infrastructure is to a large extent still underdeveloped with only slightly above 9,000 kilometres of the about 178,000 kilometres of roads paved; COGNISANT that, Part Two of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution of Kenya (2010) mandates County Governments to manage county transport, including; roads, street lighting, traffic and parking, amongst other county public transport matters; DEEPLY CONCERNED that, County Governments are continuously prioritizing routine maintenance works over sustainable and durable road quality works due to budgetary constraints; NOW THEREFORE the Senate calls upon the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development to develop and adopt standard policy regulations prescribing modern, eco- friendly and inexpensive technologies to be applied across the 47 counties for construction, upgrading and maintenance of rural access roads in order to ensure durability and sustainability of the access roads and also to reduce maintenance expenses. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason I brought this Motion is almost self- explanatory from its body. It is obvious that, in our counties, we are spending a lot of money on maintenance of rural roads. I am not talking about the bituminous ones, but the murram roads; the feeder roads that open up the remote parts of our counties. I come from the front that we have travelled a lot, as Senators. We are always benchmarking, as politicians and leaders, and have seen how other countries have dealt with opening up their rural areas. It is from this background that I say that we need our 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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