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"speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Japheth Nyakundi",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to give the Cabinet Secretary a solution to this problem. He has money meant for the Cabinet Secretary’s allocation. As we wait for mediation to commence, could he kindly give us that money? We do not even know how that allocation is distributed within the country. We have been experiencing problems with our roads and when we come to your office, we get no solutions or money to repair those small roads. Secondly, kindly do not dare touch the 10 per cent and 22 per cent allocation because that money solves the problems on small roads at home. Lastly, money is allocated to the Budget and Appropriations Committee to conduct public participation around the country. We have demonetised those small roads to the point that they seem unnecessary, and that the money set aside for them is going into someone's pocket. Those roads serve our people. Once you get a bridging facility of Ksh10 million, it seems as if there is someone who wants to eat it. Let us not demonetise those roads."
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"content": "Point made. Hon. Kiamba."
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"speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Suzanne Kiamba",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker and the Cabinet Secretary, for this forum. There was a good rationale for having KeRRA and KURA. I do not know whether the rationale has changed. One of the rationales was to solve the problems affecting our roads as fast as possible. We collect this money at the national level. I only have less than 20 kilometres of tarmac road in my constituency. If we do away with KeRRA, should people in Makueni stop living, selling and buying, waiting for what they do not know? I request the Principal Secretary to be considerate. Institutions are not collapsed overnight. They are built with a rationale and if they are to be collapsed, there has to be a good rationale for it."
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"content": "Hon. GK, Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure."
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"speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am a happy man today now that the Cabinet Secretary is here to listen to my colleagues’ sentiments. Cabinet Secretary, the questions being raised are those that I am asked as the Chairperson of the Committee, yet I do not have the answers. The buck does not stop with me as the Chairperson of the Committee. As the Chairman, I do not have the answers because the buck does not stop with me. The buck stops with the Executive and you are the representative. So, Cabinet Secretary, I will pick two issues that I would be happy to hear your response on."
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"speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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"content": "One is the issue of mediation. When do you intend to call for this mediation? Can you give us the timelines for when you want to conduct it, and who the members of this mediation team will be?"
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"speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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"content": "Two is the issue that has been raised by my colleague on murram roads. It is assumed that money allocated for murraming our roads goes into people’s pockets. However, that is not true. These roads are very critical and are what I would call the last-mile link roads. It is not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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"content": "possible to tarmac all roads in the country, but we have sections of rural roads that require heavy grading and gravelling. Therefore, let us not adopt the mindset that this money goes to waste."
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"speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
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"content": "In the last Term, I was not in very good books with the Government because I was in the opposition, so to say. I did not get many resources for tarmacking roads in my constituency, but I used the little money that came my way through the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) under the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), the same amounts that Members are agitating for here. That is what kept the roads in my constituency motorable for five years. And even if such a road only lasts for seven or ten years, it is still very helpful to the people who live in the rural areas."
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"speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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"content": "Cabinet Secretary, you have my full support."
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