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    "id": 1059406,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is a request for a Statement on outstanding pending bills to small African contractors on roads and other related infrastructure projects. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Roads and Transportation on the issue of outstanding bills owed to small contractors on roads and other related infrastructure projects. In the Statement, the Committee should- (i) Provide a list of pending bills owed to small contactors of roads and other related infrastructure projects since the year 2017 to date; (ii) Explain the reasons for the non-payment of the pending bills despite the directive by the President to cushion small contractors against the impact of the COVID- 19, a situation that has led to many job losses as the said contractors have been forced to lay off workers; (iii) State reasons for lack of a policy by the three roads agencies in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development to prioritize payment of small African contractors as an affirmative action; (iv) Outline measures that the three road agencies intend to put in place to pay accrued interests arising from the delayed payments of those contractors as provided for in the contracts signed and the impact on the taxpayer; and (v) State when the three roads agencies in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and urban Development intend to pay all outstanding pending bills of those small contractors given that supplementary budget tabled in the National Assembly has no The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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