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    "id": 878781,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878781/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "My second contribution on this BPS is on roads. The road network is the nerve of this country. In fact, it should be a big one. It should be isolated to become a big one. It is the artery of this country. It is the movement of this country. Without roads, our country is finished. I am wondering whether what we are seeing as the representatives of the people is seen by people who make this policy statement. All Members are affected by roads. I do not know whether the people who make the policy statement and even budget understand and feel the way we feel in terms of roads. Why am I saying that? In the BPS that I made presentation this week on Tuesday, the infrastructure department, that is roads, is in a deficit of Kshs124 billion. You wonder what is going on. Who does not understand that the people of Kenya need roads? I remember in the last Budget, all these honourable Members took me to task. I even went forward and proposed Kshs8.7 billion that every constituency will get Kshs30 million to repair their roads. It means it is a serious matter. What is happening? The people who are supposed to do it seem not to be seeing that we have a serious problem in terms of deficit and we need roads. Everybody needs roads here. I cannot sit at the corridors. Members take me around and ask me for roads. I wish I had powers to give roads. All these honourable Members have the power to give the money. Give us Kshs124 billion come April and come to ask for roads. Because of resources, we have made a proposal as a Committee. We have not kept quiet and lamented the way I am talking. We know there is a deficit of Kshs124 billion. We know we have a budget problem in terms of scarcity of resources. We had made a proposal to the Budget and Appropriations Committee in terms of policy that we want them to agree with us. We had proposed to create a roads board under Kenya Roads Board so that we are able to float a bond of Kshs300 billion. We have the money to securitise – we have about Kshs54 billion for fuel levy. We have discussed with the Ministry and they are ready to use a percentage of that money to securitise for roads board. I think this is the best time to discuss and agree. That is why I am saying I do not know whether the people who draft these things feel the way we feel as elected Members of Parliament."
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