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    "id": 1497148,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to give a precise response to a request made by Hon. Nolfason Obadiah Barongo, who is the Member of of Parliament for Bomachoge Borabu Constituency. It was requested on 9th October 2024. In the request for statement, Hon. Obadiah Barongo sought to establish, among other things: 1. The status of upgrading the road network in Bomachoge Borabu Constituency to bitumen standards. 2. The timelines for the completion of stalled projects in the constituency. The Committee received a response from the Ministry of Roads and Transport through the Clerk of the National Assembly on 13th November 2024. I now wish to make the response. On the status of upgrading of the road network in Bomachoge Borabu Constituency to bitumen standards, I wish to submit that the Ministry is currently upgrading to bitumen standards a total of 47 kilometres of roads in Bomachoge Borabu Constituency through the Kenya Roads Authority (KeRRA). That comprises the following roads: Mogonga-Kenyenya- Riokindo-Nyabitunwa, Riokindo-Magenche-Kenyenya, Mariba-Nyagancha-Eberege-Daraja, and Riokindo-Kenyenya TTC-Magena Roads. They have been packaged into the Roads Project No. RWC217. With regards to the timelines for the completion of the stalled projects in the constituency, a total of 30 kilometres of the roads have been substantially completed and handed over to KeRRA. Ten kilometres are upgraded up to the first seal of bitumen, thus near completion. Only seven kilometres remain in gravel condition. However, the project has faced the challenge of price variation exceeding the contracted provisions due to extensive delays and exogenous factors. That has exhausted the contracted amount. The Ministry, through KeRRA, is currently reviewing an appraisal that shall allow the completion of the remainder of the works upon award. We project the completion of the project to be by December 2025, once the appraisal is agreed upon. Hon. Speaker, I submit."
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