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    "id": 1025236,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, FORD – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Nasri Ibrahim",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nasri Sahal Ibrahim",
        "slug": "nasri-sahal-ibrahim"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Report of the Committee. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, among other objectives we set out to establish the status of the dams against the resources allocated, we conducted inspection visits to Itare Dam, Chemususu Dam, Northern Collector Tunnel, Kimwarer Dam, Thwake Dam, Umaa Dam and Mwache Dam. During the inspection visits as a Committee, we noted that the construction of most of the dam projects were slow and it was attributed to crosscutting issues namely inadequate financial resources and primary counterparts funding, inefficiencies and costly financing models and unsettled resettlement action plans. On the unsettled resettlement action plans, it was observed that various dam projects financial commitments had been done before acquisition of projects and land resulting into implementation delay and huge cost of construction delays with issues of resettlement of persons affected. I support the Committee’s recommendation that the Government should as much as possible acquire land for the construction of dams long before the project implementation or making any financial commitment to donors and partners to avoid huge costs of delayed implementation and related costs. On inefficiency and costly financing models, the Committee observed that the procurement model adopted by the National Treasury in most of the dams under Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Financing Scheme (EPC–F) was more or less single sourcing and, therefore, subject to abuse and value of money may not be effectively realised. The foreign private commercial loans through EPC–F Model came with high interest rates, costly insurances, requirements, undisclosed negotiation fees and hidden costs resulting to the loan facility being very exorbitant. I strongly support the Committee’s recommendation that the National Treasury and the line ministry should, therefore, stop implementation of the projects. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support."
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