Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 932847,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/932847/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 67,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kuria East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marwa Kitayama",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13394,
        "legal_name": "Marwa Kemero Maisori Kitayama",
        "slug": "marwa-kemero-maisori-kitayama"
    },
    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on rehabilitation of roads that are of security importance to this country. The Ministry maintains and rehabilitates certain roads that are said to be of security importance in the country; noting their role in enhancing security and ensuring that critical Government services are provided such as immigration, revenue collection as well as managing international boundaries. Those roads include but not limited to Kababu C13 junction in Migori, Suna West Constituency that connects Isebania One-stop Border Post in Kuria West Constituency; Nyamutiro One-stop Border Post in Kuria East Constituency; Kobanga One-stop Border Post in Suna West Constituency and Loliondo C13 which is in Kilgoris Constituency and other roads in Boni Forest in Lamu County; among others. The road in Migori County, connecting the three one-stop border posts has not been maintained since 2016. As such, the residents of Migori County, specifically Kuria East Constituency, as well as foreigners visiting Kenya through the border points, are unable to transport their produce to the markets and to take their sick relatives to hospitals because the roads are in pathetic situation. They suffer great indignity in transporting their dead through Tanzania for them to access their homes, so that they can bury their dead. The Ministry directed the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) Migori Regional Manager to present estimates for rehabilitation of this road to gravel engineering standards. It was cost at Kshs350 million. It is on account of the current neglect of that key road that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the following: a) Which State Department is responsible for the construction and rehabilitation of roads that are said to be of security importance in this country? I ask this because if you go to the Ministry of interior…"
}