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    "id": 1495431,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker and Hon. Members. Let me take the concern on assignment of the road. Let me state that the assignee takes the full responsibility, including providing performance guarantee for the works that have been assigned. Why do we assign, Hon. Members? If we want to go through a re-tendering process, of course we take time, but second and more importantly, you want to maintain the old rates. You know that if a road was awarded in 2017, we assign with the same terms. If we re-tender in 2024, it will come with a cost of today. So, there is merit in assigning where there is a contractor willing to be assigned. Like I said, a company like China Railway No.10 Engineering has the capacity. I indicated that I had a meeting with them last week and I am going to call them again. The outstanding amount of about Ksh50 million is not much. I will make sure we start with making the road motorable. A case in question, for example, is when we did this road from Kwale to Kinango to facilitate movements of the constituents to Mashujaa Day. We asked the contractor to make the road to be motorable first so that as they upgrade the road to bitumen standard, the road will be in a very good murram condition. I will undertake to ensure that China Railway No.10 makes this road all the way to Luanda motorable first, and secondly, an assignee with full responsibility and performance being assigned to them, to finish the road now that we have a contractor, I said has capacity. Finally, we are equally working and ensuring that we pay all the pending bills in due course as we work together to support the securitization of the seven shillings. With respect to Navakholo, Hon. Makali, I am told the tendering process has been completed, an intention of award has been done, and subject to those number of days lapsing, the award should be done by 14th November 2024, which is tomorrow. Again, we will continue to pursue to ensure that we address the challenge that runs across most of the counties particularly through the securitization and ensuring that we pay the pending bills. Thank you."
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