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    "id": 1562352,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562352/?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": "With respect to the question of when we will see the full amount of the disbursement, I indicated that the amount that we still have, the 10 per cent and the 20 per cent, will be released next week to the extent that it is not within that interim conservatory order issued by the court. We will release Ksh3.5 billion next week to address those roads. Concerning Justice Kemei’s question… What was the question from Justice Kemei? Let me first deal with the low-volume roads. What we will shortly see with the low-volume roads and the orphaned roads is securitisation and the availability of some level of resources for us to repair and reseal them across the country. In effect, a number of those low-volume roads that Mhe. Kemei from Sigowet raised is that they are “orphaned” roads. They have not been allocated resources for maintenance. When we engage the securitisation and what we can do with that money, we should be able to maintain the roads. We are already doing that. Immediately some of the contractors finished the low-volume sealed roads, they were not able to undertake the maintenance which was within the contract because there were so many pending bills that they abandoned the work. Even the last bit of the one-year maintenance was not taken up. Therefore, if today you go to roads like Daraja Sita-Chebole-Labotiet-Emurua Dikirr Road, it is being maintained and resealed because we have unblocked and paid the pending bills. They are able to go and do what was not accomplished under the contract. We will see quite a number of this happening across the whole country. I will just use that as an example. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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