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    "id": 1034172,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "opportunity to correct that kind of behaviour. The Report has tabulated quite a number of figures. I just want to look at the figures or the amounts of money allocated vis-a-vis the completion percentages. I am not very comfortable with 20 per cent of works done over a period of three years. The contractors are not completing the stadia. Many of them were at between 20 per cent and 40 per cent completion, and have since stagnated at 70 per cent. That reminds us that most of our projects are stalling not because of anything else, but the laws of contract that we have. The manner in which we engage in contracts ties up the Government such that exiting from non-performing contracts becomes a problem. It is high time this House looked at the public contract laws to provide for an exit clause in respect of non-performing contracts. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my second point is on distribution of the stadia. When you look at the distribution of stadia, the entire Western Belt has been left out. It only terminates in Eldoret. The old Nyanza, the upper North Rift and the entire Western has been left out. The County Government of Kakamega invested some money that was meant for other programmes to construct the stadium. We are seeking that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) enables us to devolve more funds. If more funds get to Kakamega, and we invest in more projects like the construction of the Bukhungu Stadium, more development will be realised. Bukhungu Stadium is now ranked at number three. If you look at what the County Government of Kakamega has done"
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