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    "id": 1208164,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1208164/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support these regulations. First, I want to thank the committee for a job well done within a very short time. I commend them for bringing these regulations which are very important. What we need within government projects is to ensure we provide a framework for efficient and effective public investment. As it stands now, a lot of project identification being done is from the supply side and not demand side. Sometimes, Government projects are implemented not because there is need but because people want to make money out of it. So, one of the important things about these regulations is focus on public project identification and project planning. Other important aspects which these regulations bring are: pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, selection and budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and closure, sustainability and impact assessments to ensure there is value for money and optimal use of public resources. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are things we have seen in this country that have drained public resources, especially in the road sector and specifically at the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA). I will give you an example of the Mombasa-Malindi Road, which is now being re-done entirely as an East African Community road. Six months ago, one contractor was putting shoulders on both sides of that road in a huge multi-billion-shilling project. Before they had even completed, another contractor began removing the whole road. A new contract had been signed and they were removing the whole road while another contractor on the other side was putting shoulders on it. They were removing the road plus the new shoulders. That is wastage of Government money. If you travel there today, the shoulders have been removed because there is a new project to dual the road. You ask yourself whether a feasibility study for putting the road shoulders was done and when the new design of the road was done. Three years ago, Kenya knew that there would be an East African Community road being constructed there but money was still allocated by KeNHA to shoulder the road, which is a great waste. Hon. Temporary Speaker, if you go to the road just before you get to the Integrity Centre, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) had put walkways on both sides of the road. They had put red tiles and they looked very nice. Less than six months before the road was even commissioned, they removed all that cabro pavement and put in new tarmac. Did they not know that they would put tarmac before they put the cabro? That tells you that there was no agreement. People did not talk and there was no organ that looked at it. There are a lot of things that the NMS did in this city that are now being removed even before being used. That is wastage. There is a section of the Nairobi Expressway that was recently carpeted. They removed the tarmac and now they are putting it back. That is wastage. Hon. Temporary Speaker, these Regulations will help us stop wastage in this country. I support these Regulations because this is the way to go. Before projects are done, we need to look at their entire scope so that we get value for money for them. I commend the Committee. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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