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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. Deputy Speaker. Since these are substantive questions, allow me to come back with comprehensive answers in two weeks’ time. Regarding Hon. Paul Biego’s question, the Danger-Chemuswa, Cheptiret-Kesses – or is it Lessos-Junction Road C36 leading to Moi University, is also with China Railway No.10 Engineering Group. If you take time to look at the appropriation, you will realise that the pending bill on this road is Ksh734.3 million. I have just checked. We only appropriated Ksh91.3 million. Even after paying the Ksh91 million, which we have not paid due to lack of Exchequer issues but which we are still working on, we will still have a deficit of more than Ksh600 million. We have taken it as a road of interest and we are trying to get the contractor back to the site. That is partly why I had a meeting with this contractor last week. He has undertaken that if we pay him another Ksh300 million, he will resume work and accelerate it. As I said, he is a contractor with means. He has many other contracts across the country. We are working to ensure that in the next few days, he is back at work. We are working on his payments. We want to make sure that we bring down that pending bill ahead of the securitisation funding. We will bring that pending bill down by about 50 per cent and get him back to work. On the other detailed questions, allow me to come back with detailed answers as we continue to work together. In two weeks, I will probably be reporting how far we are on the securitisation issue. We want to get all the contractors back to work to ensure that, first and foremost, all the roads are motorable so that even when they down their tools, they do not hold us at ransom. Hon. Members, let me thank the House for the engagement this afternoon and commit that I will do my best to ensure that we provide infrastructure that can support the economy in terms of movement of goods and people in the way modern economies provide infrastructure for their populations. Thank you."
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