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    "id": 1495347,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary of Roads and Transport",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. With respect to Mackinnon Road, let me confirm that I can come to the ground because I will be in Mombasa next week. We can visit Mackinnon Road and confirm, that is, if you will be on the ground. We will work with the county government more closely to make sure we do not issue conflicting information. Outside the Chamber, I will liaise with you on when we can meet within the market. With respect to the two roads, in Kanze and Ahero, we have had a challenge for ongoing projects and starting new projects. Without being general, allow me to reiterate what I said during my confirmation hearing before this House. Pending bills that sit at about Ksh175 billion today are a priority we are working on. That is to ensure we settle all pending bills and get back the contractors to work. We are grateful to this House for supporting us raise the Ksh7 billion under the RMLF. We are quite advanced in the process of securitisation. It will allow us to get all contractors back to work. In the many Questions that will follow, I know that the concern on contractors vacating works and abandoning sites is something of concern. Even as we work on pending bills and getting contractors back to work in a very short while, I confirm that we also have to be very vigilant on how we bring in new projects. It is one thing to start a project then we are unable to pay bills ten years down the line. Hon. Members, we will work together more closely in ensuring budget appropriations and the estimates you give us address some directives given by leadership so that together we can ensure that we develop this country equitably. I confirm that. Let me look at the Printed Estimates, particularly with respect to those roads, and see the provisioning on how they have been covered because there were supplementary questions. Even if they have not been covered, I would like to sit down with the two Hon. Members and look at those two roads in light of the fact that there were directives from leadership. We should be able to find a way to accommodate them. Thank you."
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