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    "id": 1294853,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294853/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
    },
    "content": "We are convinced that within this masterplan, we should be able to complete Marsabit Stadium and the other stadia that have stalled because this masterplan has three pillars; sorting our international level stadia, making sure that our regional stadia are of the required standard and then investing heavily in community grounds, including academies. Allow me to go to the specific question raised by Sen. Chute. We have information that has been supplied by Sports Kenya. Sports Kenya is the agency that is responsible for sports facilities in the country. The information we have is that this particular project was undertaken under the Public Procurement and Disposal Act 2015. It started with an advertisement inviting the tender. This advertisement was put on the website of Sports Kenya and then at the closure of the advertisement, assessment was done in accordance with that law. We have provided the details of how the seven bidders were assessed. The seven bidders were Prestige Remote Land Arid Lands Construction Company Limited, Thimas Construction Company Limited, Construction Frontier Engineering, Banisa Limited and Parbats Yani Construction Limited. Upon assessment, a decision was taken by the Evaluation Committee that this project be awarded to the lowest bidder. In this case, it was Banisa Limited who bid at Kshs295,236,215. Therefore, this project was awarded to Banisa Limited. From the information we have on record, it was in line with the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2015. That decision is on record. With regard to the second question as to whether there was partnership between the County Government of Marsabit and the national Government, the answer is yes. The county government did have a share of the whole project and the investment was principally around the VIP pavilion, what is called in the project details as the western stand. The national Government took responsibility for constructing the southern stand, athletics track, the football pitch, the ticketing booths, the underground water tank, the septic tank, driveways and walkways at that figure of Kshs295,236,215. From the record, it is also indicated that from this period, there was a variation in the process of this project. This variation was apparently necessitated by the need to increase seating capacity and to finish the sub base of the athletics track using concrete rather than murram as initially projected in the project design. The result was that a variation then raised the project cost by Kshs71,767,000 occasioning the total budget cost to jump to Kshs367 million. From the project records, this was characterized as phase one. This is the phase that the national Government then handled in partnership with the county government. Phase two of this project has not commenced yet. The reason is that this project stalled in 2019. It remained in limbo from 2019 to 2022, when our administration came into office. We quickly looked at this project alongside the other projects that I have mentioned, including Karatu in Kiambu County, Wote in Makueni County, Kamariny in Elgeyo Marakwet County and Kipchoge Keino in Uasin Gishu County. We determined that it was important in public interest to subject these projects to a special audit and complete them in the context of a masterplan. So, the status today is that the project"
}