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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "Thank you Cabinet Secretary for the responses that you have shared with us this morning, particularly on the measures that the Government is currently taking to ensure that there is completion of such projects. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, I listened to you and I have gone through the response you gave us. I am a bit worried that you not been given what they would call the actual situation on the ground on this particular project. You are aware we have had issues with the institution particular with administration and the management. In this regard, hon. Cabinet Secretary, your responses at paragraph 22, 23 and 26, form part of the areas where I would want to ask the supplementary questions. Under paragraph 22 of your response, which I believe the officers who gave you these responses intentionally did so that they serve the intention they desired. This contract was extended four times on 7th November, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2nd August, 2021, and that the contractor abandoned site in May, 2021. That was within the contract extension period. I have made an attempt to reach out to the contractor. In response to that paragraph 22 and 23, the contractor indicated that on 22nd October, 2018, there was official handover of one part of the project - one academic block that is in bracket – (tuition block which had been referenced to at paragraph17 (a)). This was an official State function presided over by the then President, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta. During the handover ceremony, a handing-over certificate was prepared and issued. A certificate of completion was also made available and the first moiety of Kshs5 million was thereafter paid to the contractor. That is with regard to the tuition block. The response is that the tuition block is 95 per cent complete. It could not have been possible for all these to be done, including a State function, if that position is true. Secondly, you have said under paragraph 22 that the contractor abandoned the site. He indicates that the administration had already occupied the site. Therefore, he could not have been working on a site that was already occupied, as at May 2021. If it was incomplete as it is alleged in the response in paragraph 23, which of course is the true position with regards to the multipurpose hall, library block, hostels,"
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