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    "id": 1294855,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "remains frozen until the audit is concluded and it will be completed in the context of the masterplan. The total cost to complete the whole project as designed was Kshs951,825,128. Responding to Question (d) in terms of an update on status of construction and expected date of completion; I can report to this Hon. House that Sports Kenya, through the contractor Banisa Limited, undertook Phase One of this project. As I have already put on record, it included the southern stand, the track for athletics, synthetic tough, pitchways, driveways, pitch works, walkway, parking with murram, finished ticketing booths, powerhouse, underground water tanks, septic tank and Very Important Person (VIP) entrance. It is reported from the project record that there was a failure with the borehole that had been sunk to supply water for watering the pitch. Apparently, a decision was then made by the Board of Sports Kenya that the grass pitch or what was initially planned as the grass pitch be subsequently be changed to an artificial football tough. As I have already indicated, this project has been subjected by the Ministry itself to a special audit. That special audit as well as the sports and infrastructure masterplan that the Ministry has developed will guide completion of this project. I have attached in my submissions and submitted the file to the House. The very last attachment is a letter from myself dated 11th January 2023. The reference is a request for a special audit of infrastructure projects and programmes at the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Sports and the Arts. I wrote that letter to the Auditor General and handed it to the Auditor General myself, in person. The purpose of that letter was to invite the Auditor General to look into a number of projects and programmes that had challenges and where we needed the office of the Auditor General to guide. There is also a response from the office of the Auditor General dated 27th February 2023 in which the Auditor General acknowledges receiving my request. From that correspondence, the process of the special audit then commenced. We expect that process to conclude. The ultimate goal is to meet the needs and expectations of this community by providing them with a modern and fully functional stadium facility, constructed within the tenets of value for money. We will continue to provide progress updates as soon as this special audit is concluded. We have every intention as a Ministry to complete this particular stadium alongside other stalled projects that are on record here because public funds have already been expended. In the context of our very robust and progressive transformative agenda under the bottom-up economic transformation agenda for sports and creative industry, we believe completing these facilities will be useful in realising the bottom-up economic transformation agenda. I submit."
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