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    "id": 1570904,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to respond to that Statement. That Statement does not meet the threshold of a response from a Committee that ought to conduct thorough investigations on such a serious matter. On 14th March, I brought this Statement before this House. These are SEQIP in my constituency. There were 23 projects, out of which, only 13 were completed. Ten were never started. Some were started, but the works collapsed midway. These projects are wasting away. You will be shocked by the report that the Committee has presented to this House. For the ten projects that were neither started nor completed, one of the justifications given was that of challenging terrain. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you are my neighbour in Uasin Gishu. Tell me, St Teresa Koibarak Girls, which is in Marakwet West, Santa Maria Cheptulon, and Cheborowa Girls, Kapcherob, where exactly is the challenging terrain in that area? This is a serious matter that the Committee must treat with the seriousness it deserves. The second reason they have provided for not completing, or even starting the projects was serious security issues. Where in Marakwet West? We only have one challenge in one area of the constituency. Hon. Joseph Makilap is my neighbour in Baringo North, which is more rural, and has security challenges. One of the projects that has neither been completed nor started is in Chebororwa Girls. This is a joke. The problem we face with statements in this House is that committees merely adopt and regurgitate reports from the Ministry, hook, line, and sinker, without conducting any investigations."
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