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    "id": 1353938,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353938/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 217,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
    },
    "content": "On that road of Karandi-Mochongoi-Marigat, I insist that as we work on the resources, we are going to return the contractor to site. He has done a good job so far but the financial constraints is the reason why he is not there. On the Oinobmoi-Tenges and Kapkayo-Kipsaos Road, I was with Sen. Cheptumo about three months ago at Kabartonjo. I had promised that the contractor was going to be on site within two weeks. Unfortunately, that contractor ran away because he was not willing to continue working. We have had to work together to negotiate an assignment to another contractor. That negotiation is ongoing. I hope we can reach an agreement in two or three months. Interestingly, it is not finances that has made the contractor to run away. I think he had a change of mind in terms of operating within the country and wants to wind up the programmes that they have so that he can move to another location. That negotiation is on-going and I hope that by January or thereabouts, the new contractor will come on site to replace the one that is exiting. On the Kipsaram-Bartabwa Road, up to Aror and Kapsowar, we have advertised that road. As soon as it closes, in a week's time, an evaluation will be done and the contractor will be awarded based on the budget that we used to have with a slight bit of enhancement. We are going to give a contractor who is going to be responsive. When I was in Baringo with Sen. Cheptumo about three months ago, I promised that I was going to do that. We did the same thing for two roads in Meru County. We also did the same for two roads in Kakamega County. We re-advertised the road. In Nandi County, we did the same for the road in Mosop in Kaiboi and the road that comes from Kobere to Timboroa. The contracts are closing next week and then evaluation will be done. I believe that we shall deliver for the people of Baringo County."
}