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    "id": 1238409,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1238409/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true my neighbour Sen. (Prof.) Kamar has captured a problem that has affected the Nyaru-Iten Road. I have had this conversation with the leaders of Elgeyo/Marakwet County because this road really abandoned the issue of access. There is the problem of access. In some places, there is pending compensation like the hon. Senator has said about the neighboring Kaptagat that links Kaptarakwa to the Uasin Gishu side. Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, the contractor is still owed a huge amount of money from that road. We have had a conversation with the contractor and agreed that as soon as he gets a share of payment from the pending bills, once we get the resources, he must make sure that he does it and complete its access. At the moment, if you go to Iten-Nyaru Road, most of the citizens along that road are happy because we constructed the road. However, the problem is where they park their vehicles. Everybody leaves their vehicles along the road and walks for a distance to get home because of lack of access. We have had that conversation with the contractor. We believe that as soon as we give him a small share of his resources, he will do it. There is also connecting roads at a place called Chelingwa as you enter to Kimoning area. There are roads that are incomplete, including the ones that our former President had promised then, the road you are talking about from Kaptarakwa to Kaptagat. We shall make sure that those roads are completed. The challenge is that the contractor is suffering. I am happy that you have asked this question because I come from Marakwet, for everybody to appreciate that it is everywhere, including my own county that is still waiting for payment of pending bills, so that contractors can complete the work that they do. The other thing about Nyaru/Iten Road is that a number of sections of it were not paved to the expected standards. We agreed with KeNHA that it was either done as a low-volume seal road, but as we can see, the volume of vehicles in that road has already increased all the way from Cheptongei to Kamatira. It has now become a busy highway. In the next phase of maintenance of that road, just the way we have done in Ravine-Kamwosor-Eldoret Road, we will make sure the maintenance now compensates for the level of standards that was required for the road, to accommodate the higher volume of vehicles that are using that road. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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