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    "content": "university, that was the first road I was taken to for training when it was being tarmacked. That is a long time ago and it needs to have been redone. That is actually the gateway to the whole of north eastern because it is only through that road that you can go to Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and parts of Tana River. There is something about that road, because for those of us who have travelled on it, the surface is not as black as any other road; it looks patchy. It actually has something to do with the material which was used for sealing that road. By then, I was just a graduate engineer and a trainee student. I know that by the time I left there, they were trying the white chippings from Nguni on that road, and that is maybe why it has been coming off. That was 22 years ago. That was not even a proper tarmac; it was a sealed road, where you just have bitumen on top of the base, and then you put the chippings. It is not like the Ashford concrete that we have now. This road should have been reconstructed, because its maximum life would have been 10 or 15 years, but now it is 22 years old. Therefore, the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) has questions to answer. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, as the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Roads and Transport, I take that request from Sen. Wambua – who is also a member of that Committee –seriously, so that we visit that road. The KeNHA has to tell us why that road has not been recarpeted because it should have been reconstructed maybe some seven years ago. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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