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    "content": "– one of them being universal health – then we owe it to ourselves to have good feeder roads. Having a big highway will not help that mother because she has to access it through a feeder road or reach a health facility just a few kilometres from where she lives. We cannot talk of accessing good healthcare without transportation. This will happen when we have feeder roads. There are many other sectors like education. Our children need to access schools in their neighbourhood. For our country to develop or become a middle economy, one of the biggest areas that we have to attend to is the feeder roads and not just the big roads. I had an opportunity to visit Cuba with Parliament, under the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). While in the countryside, we were amazed because Cuba is just a developing country like ours. They are not very wealthy, but their roads have no potholes. As we bring health workers from Cuba to support our health sector, we should also import or learn their technology on how to construct cheap and beautiful roads with no potholes. Our roads are very expensive because of corruption. I hope all of us shall support His Excellency the President and the people who are working on ridding our country of corruption. If we do that, it will be possible to construct roads and attend to other areas of development because there will be enough money to go to every sector that we are trying to develop. This includes housing and all infrastructure put together. We can do it if we support the war on corruption. I do not know if we can put a rider that it should not just be the rural roads, but also roads in slum areas like Kangemi, Kawangware and others. They are also economy centres of our people. I support."
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