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    "id": 963904,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/963904/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "give conditional grants and the road maintenance levy fund hence we have to engage the county governments and the national Government authorities like Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), KeRRA and KURA. Those are some of the issues that we want to engage the CS on when he comes on 4th December, 2019. That will help us have a clear roadmap. We are now facing a lot of emergencies on our roads and they have to gear their work plans towards emergencies and not the normal construction or improvement. I also mentioned the issue of Malaba in the Report. We went to Malaba One Stop Border Point with Sen. Wetangula. We realised that there is sheer negligence on the part of Kenya’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. The trucks have piled for 20 kilometres. We measured the kilometres when we were driving to Bungoma. The problem is a 50 metre section on that border point which should have been completed two or three years ago. Ugandans have done their part. In a One Stop Border Point, trucks from Kenya are to drive straight to the Ugandan side where the Kenyan and Ugandan revenue authorities are to clear them and those coming from Uganda will go straight to the Kenyan border and they will also be cleared by the Kenyan and Ugandan revenue authorities. The Ugandan side is flowing, but we have not provided the loop for them to go round the customs in Kenya. There is a snarl up on our side because they have to first allow the trucks from Uganda to go through. We are told that in a day---"
}