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    "id": 971488,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "As they wait for the three days, there is some illegitimate kind of behaviour that sips in. For instance, the drivers are tempted to engage inappropriately with the women or female friends around there. That is a discovery they made as a Committee. The Committee came back with an objective mind of ensuring that they arrest the situation that they saw; to ensure the people at the border post get service delivery. That is what a Committee should do; going to the ground to investigate and witness the problem. The other observation they made was that there was an incomplete road. The money that is needed to complete the road is about Kshs100 million, which has not been released. The irony of this is that there is a lot of money – more than Kshs300 million - that had already been pumped into that project. Since the Government has already spent Kshs300 million on this project, it is fair that it releases Kshs100 million so that the project is completed. If the project is not complete, it will not help the Government in any way. It will not help the people of Busia, Malaba and the country as a whole. This also has economic implications, specifically with regard to employment. When a road is accessible and busy, it will create employment to our youths and people around the area. That will have an economic benefit to the residents. Ideally, when we are talking of creating employment, we have to look for ways and mechanisms of ensuring that the locals are employed. Mr. Teemporary Speaker, Sir, I support the recommendation of the Committee that there is need to be a parking lot. The parking lot will add to revenue being collected by the county government. Apart from collecting revenue, they will have created jobs for those who will be collecting the revenue. Apart from that, the Committee also made recommendations that there is need to have streetlights at the border post. When there are no lights at night anything can happen. As a security measure, lights should be put up at the border post. They also made an observation that there is need to complete the road to the border post because this will have some economic benefits not only to the nation, but even the residents around there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also want to commend the Committee for going to Kibwezi to see the road for themselves. They talked to the residents of Kibwezi and tried to find out what exactly the problem was. The Committee was given answers. Ideally, that is good in terms of public participation. Public participation is not necessarily calling a baraza and talking. Taking yourself to the people to hear their suggestions is constitutionally legitimate. I commend the Committee for going to Kibwezi to interact with the contractors and assessing the road. While in Kibwezi, the Committee realised that the contractor did not have a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity. When organisations are doing a project somewhere, they need to have a CSR activity in order to get the goodwill of the community. A CSR activity is about giving back to the community to express appreciation for working in the community. The CSR activity should be one that will benefit the residents of that area."
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