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    "id": 1562353,
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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 Hon. Ruweida, on Mtaka Wanda- Kizingitini, I will push to make sure the contractor goes to the site next week, if he has not already gone yet. The tenders were done. This is probably the first tarmac road in Lamu East. Mhe. Ruweida, let me take up that next week. Hon. Pkosing, we have been paying the contractors in the last one or two weeks, except that I accompanied His Excellency to China, and unfortunately it has also been raining. It is on top of my agenda. This is what I probably do every day to make sure that the contractors go back to work. I said that every contractor who has been paid 40 per cent signed a settlement agreement which confirms that they will go back to work on payment of the 40 per cent while awaiting the 60 per cent that should be paid within 120 days. The success of our fundraising the 60 per cent, and being paid the balance will be based on how they perform with the 40 per cent. The settlement agreement also pushed the contractors to discount 35 per cent of the interest which they had levied. I wish to confirm to Mhe. Pkosing, and this Parliament that for contractors on any road which had been abandoned due to pending bills, we are getting them to go back to work. If they have not gone back to work, it is just because of the rains or they are servicing the equipment. Some of these massive up-moving equipment have been lying idle for the last two or three years, so a number of them are being serviced. All of them will indiscriminately go back to work upon payment of the 40 per cent which has already happened. I wish to confirm to the House that this will happen if it has not happened already. This is not a matter of months, but days."
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