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    "id": 89550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/89550/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. M.M. Mahamud",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 373,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to second Vote 13 of the Ministry of Roads for the financial year 2010/2011. First of all, I would like to thank the Ministry led by the Minister and his staff for the important work they are doing in this country. Roads are very important to the economy of this country and they are necessary for the provision of goods and services. They are also good for the competitiveness of this country in our region. Without roads, there will be no meaningful development in the country. We cannot be talking of alleviating poverty in this country without roads. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, just to know the state of our roads in 2003 and where we are today, we know what has been happening since that time in 2003. By 2003, our roads were really dilapidated to the extent that no major road in this country was passable. But today, we are able to see a lot of work going on nationally, although there are areas that are still lagging behind in provision of roads. I will come to that later. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to thank the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance for continuously up-scaling the funding to the Ministry of Roads. From 2003/2004 up to now, I think the Ministry’s budget has actually gone up five times. Still there are challenges in the roads sector, funding is still not adequate although today we are talking about Kshs104 billion for Recurrent and Development Vote. Of course, there have been a lot of delays in the construction and completion of roads which are attributed to the fact that also funding is not coming on time and continuously as required. I would like once again to thank the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance for prioritizing roads as a key sector in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, roads investment must be maintained because you can actually be wasting the investment you have made if you do not have proper funding. I would like Kenyans to really also appreciate the work that is being done by this Ministry and also give a---"
}