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"speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads",
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"content": "My Ministry has completed a design of various roads in northern Kenya, including the Isiolo-Modogashe and Garissa-Wajir roads with a view to upgrading them to bitumen standards on a priority basis. I notice in the Budget Statement that it is indicated as Isiolo-Garissa-Modogashe-Wajir and I think that is correct. It is Isiolo- Modogashe and then Garissa-Modogashe and Modogashe-Wajir. I now wish to confirm that we have received firm commitments from a consortium of development partners on tarmacking of Modika-Nunu-Modogashe section of Garissa-Wajir Road during the next financial year, 2010/2011. What brought this Question to this House a second time is with regard to the Kshs1.2 billion that was mentioned in the Budget Speech by my colleague, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. That expenditure was not factored in my Ministryâs budget last year. The Minister mentioned the amount on the Budget Speech in the hope that before the Printed Estimates were made, there would be an agreement with a development partner. But that was never to be. So, the amount was, therefore, not factored in the Ministryâs budget and so, nobody has diverted or utilized funds meant for that road at all. It was expected to be included in the Revised Budget but that was not possible, again, due to inability to secure a development partner so that we could have on our side a contribution as counter-part funding."
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