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    "id": 884851,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/884851/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alois Lentoimaga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2756,
        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Article 96 of the Constitution provides that the Senate represents counties and serves to protect the interest of the counties. There is a lot to be done in counties. After the promulgation of the Constitution and when we started implementing it right from 2013, the Government devolved most of the roads that were mentioned in the Constitution. In fact, counties went and demanded that some of the roads be devolved faster than they were supposed to be done. Actually, their hands are full. The Senate has a lot of work to do. The national Government is only in the road committee in the constituency and handles very few roads. In my constituency, in one financial year, we can only manage four roads out of the many that are in the county. Counties have many roads: Class D, E and below including lanes and access roads. Therefore, there is a lot of work there for Senators to oversee. So, they have a lot to do if they want to do oversight. Secondly, Article 95 says that the National Assembly represents the people of the constituencies and special interests. The way they want to change these roads committees, specifically wanting to include two officers from the Senator’s office in the roads committee is not good. The roads committee which is managed by KeRRA is called the Constituency Roads Committee. It is not a county roads committee. So, the request or the amendment is misplaced. It is unconstitutional as well as outrageous. After all, what the constituency roads committee manages is very little money. I do not know whether it is different from where I come from. In my constituency, the constituency roads committee, which comprises the constituency’s NG- CDF members, manages peanuts. It is hardly Kshs20 million. Why look for Kshs20 million and the county has more than Kshs1 billion that is meant for roads? Why not go for that one? After all, KeRRA does a lot of work. In fact, they are so efficient. They are managed well. From the beginning, from the time before they advertise the roads which they do without interference by the Member of Parliament, they bring auditors to verify the road first; to look at the roads to determine whether they should be graded or murramed. The auditors from the national Government go there early. After a contract is awarded for a particular road, they go The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}