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    "id": 1562205,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562205/?format=api",
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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": "Withholding Ksh10.5 billion is significant. We just went through securitisation and raised a bridge funding facility of about Ksh63 billion, which we used to pay most of the contractors, including the wayleaves. All the contractors are going back to work having sorted out 40 per cent of the pending bills, which had accrued for the last five to six years. We need the Ksh10.5 billion, which is significant, to unlock this impasse and get that money working for us through the established RMLF Act, 1993, at such a time when we are experiencing the long rains, so that we can access markets for our products. Easing the movement of people and goods is top of the agenda. I would like to confirm to this Parliament, this afternoon, that I will provide leadership to ensure that this mediation is handled in a way that will yield positive results, so that we can get the money back to where it ought to be, and for it to work for Kenyans. Thank you, Hon. Speaker and Members."
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