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    "id": 1625809,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625809/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": "With respect to the service roads, sometimes as a developing economy, it becomes very difficult to buy land from land users and possibly demolish houses, which have been built very close to the road to build a service road. So it is a case of economics. Do we compensate to build temporary roads while we are building the roads? Where there is a corridor, yes. Where there is no corridor, it becomes a bit of a challenge. Allow me, for the programmes running in Mombasa with the expedited payments, to accelerate the connector between the Mombasa side and the Kilifi side through Mtwapa Bridge very quickly and ensure that we remove that challenge in a very short time. The challenge for a long time was the pending bills and the very slow work that was whatever. With respect to slip roads, which have also been designed, I will seek to have possibly a closer meeting with the Senator to show him the design. There are slip roads around through Mtwapa Town. We have compensated for the inner corridor to move the small traders, so that you can build the main corridor. There are slip roads and because we now have money, we are compensating and we will have slip roads through the town. The challenge was, because we were not able to compensate them, you would not actually know that there are slip roads. When you see the designs, we have designed with service roads, along the main corridor. So we have compensated earlier on through Exchequer release some Kshs73 million to get access to build the main corridor. For slip roads, we have now got money and we are compensating to do the service roads, which are parallel to the main road. You will see that and I can spend some time with Sen. Madzayo to show him the design, the fact that we have compensated for the main artery, and we are now compensating for the service roads through the town. I thank you."
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