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    "id": 1443840,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1443840/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": ". Pole kwa kuchanganya lugha. Hii ni kwa sababu, saa hii nikisema ya kwamba, kwa sababu tumepewa fedha asilimia 58 ya zile fedha tunazohitaji kumaliza barabara, niamue kumalizia barabara za Elgeyo- Marakwet mwaka huu, ndio mwaka ujao tuende kwa Kaunti ya Nyeri halafu tufuatie na Kaunti ya Garissa, hapo kutakuwa na mvutano mkubwa sana katika Taifa. Ndiposa unaona katika Bajeti, kila mtu anapewa kidogo kidogo kwa sababu ile milestone ifaywe kwa kila stage ya barabara. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to repeat this in English. Many Kenyans are saying, why you not take the little money? Last financial year, we got 25 billion out of a budget of Kshs51 billion, out of a need of a pending bill of Kshs165 billion. The people of Kenya are asking me to take the Kshs25 billion, finish the Road from Waiyaki to Rironi, complete the interchanges and pay the contractor. That decision is not tenable politically for so many leaders. When Parliament is doing the budget, they want to make sure that the contractors in every part of the country are taking steps. The second and most difficult problem is that, if you do not make an attempt to continue paying their contractors, you are worsening the interests. Some contractors will leave the site completely. They will take legal action against the Ministry and the agency. Therefore, to make them go back to the site will become difficult. Therefore, for the two years, I have become a negotiator of some sort. Thanks to my political and legal training. I have had to call a contractor and plead with them to go to site because we are paying them 20 per cent of their required amount. We will try our best to make a case. We are still doing so and we believe that perhaps before the end of this year, we will have made a step to solve this problem. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know it is not within my purview, but I request your indulgence to allow me to answer all the Questions asked in the book, and then all supplementary questions can come once. This is because all the questions are almost the same; on roads. It may be useful to combine those that are similar. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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