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    "id": 1532622,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute. I sympathise with my colleagues who do not have their cards because we queue using them. I am sure we have enough time for everyone to contribute. More importantly, on behalf of the great people of West Mugirango, I support the Second Supplementary Estimates to enable the Government to complete the remaining part of the financial year. We, as accountants, plan on a year-to-year basis. The commitments the Government has made have to be fulfilled before the close of this financial year on 30th June this year. I am particularly happy because there is a Supplementary Budget provision for the Ministry of Roads, Transport and Public Works. This is our biggest challenge, particularly in the Gusii Region, which falls within the Lake Victoria rain belt. Regular heavy rains wash away existent bitumen roads. I appreciate that the provision for the Ministry will go a long way in completing the little bitumen road being constructed in Nyamira municipality. It covers from Shivling to Nyangoso and extends to Yaya Centre. At this point, I must voice on the Floor of this House that while the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) has given our region value for money, I must call them out for not giving my constituents value for money from the proposed roads. I am aware that there is regular maintenance for various roads, including Kebirigo- Nyakeore-Kiambere to Motagara, which has been an eyesore. There are several other roads which are under maintenance. Sadly, we are not getting value for money from KeRRA. I presented a Question in this House. I hope that when the Cabinet Secretary comes, he will give appropriate answers that will satisfy us. Similarly, there is a road that was constructed more than 10 years ago that runs from Metamaywa to Kebirigo. The contractor was certified as having completed the work, yet there is an incomplete bridge at Nyangeita. I raised this issue with the ministry. It is shameful that a contractor has been retired from the site and paid off, but the Nyangeita bridge is an eyesore. I believe these Supplementary Estimates contain a provision for completing the Nyangeita bridge, which paints us wrongly. I am also extremely happy because the Last Mile Connectivity Project has been implemented. Some faulty transformers have embarrassed the Government in my constituency and elsewhere in the country. With these Supplementary Estimates, I hope that Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) and the Kenya Power will conclude on the faulty transformers that make the citizens in my constituency and the rest of the country suffer unnecessary blackouts. I hope that the ones they will replace with, this time around, pass the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) test so that we do not do an exercise in futility. We know that most MSMEs in this country that have supplied the Government with goods and services are squatting under pending bills. Sadly, some of them belong to persons with disabilities who have queued for years on end. We passed a law in this country that makes pending bills a first charge on the revenue of every Government entity. Embarrassingly, this law is not complied with. Many suppliers have been auctioned, if not put under receivership, yet the only crime they have committed is to supply goods and services to the Government. In this Supplementary Estimates II, I am happy we will enable government entities running short of cash flow to retire pending bills and do the needful so that Kenyans get value for the services they have rendered to the Government."
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