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    "id": 1421143,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1421143/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you. (b) It is difficult to read the Schedule openly, so I will refer to what that Schedule means. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as shown in the table above, the outstanding amount is Kshs1,598,468,659. I will also add that KeNHA has been faced with financial challenges due to inadequate budget allocations. However, the Agency has since dispersed a total of Kshs326,307,801 to NLC for compensation to some of the project’s affected persons. Further, the compensation process has commenced for the extension to Mbondoni direction. The employer’s representative assistance team have conducted land searches for the affected parcels and the Agency is in the process of validating the search which will be sent to the NLC for further gazettement of intention to acquire. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in summary, that is the answer. Just to note that Sen. Wambua has raised this question in the committees. He is a Member of the Committee, and he is very passionate about it. Unfortunately, and just to reiterate what the answer says, we have a massive problem of budget allocation, not just for this Kibwezi Road, but across the country. We have a pending bill of Kshs150 billion, and it is earning interest. It is growing everyday yet the budgetary allocation for this exercise, this financial year is only Kshs46 billion. We struggled to distribute it between pending roads and compensation for projects affected persons and that challenge requires a serious national conversation before we go to the next budget circle. Otherwise, many people are suffering, not just in"
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