{"id":246232,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/246232/?format=json","text_counter":45,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Eng. Toro","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Roads and Public Works","speaker":{"id":239,"legal_name":"Joshua Ngugi Toro","slug":"joshua-toro"},"content":" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the 30-kilometre Ekero-Ebuyangu Road is impassable during the rainy season. My Ministry has already contracted the road for improvement and upgrading to gravel standards at a contract sum of Kshs123,063,515. (b) The design of the road for upgrading to bitumen standard is being looked into for the 2006/2007 Financial Year."}