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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Toro",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Ngugi Toro",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not have that information and so, I am not misleading the House. That is what I said. It depends on how you perceive construction of roads. That is why I talked about gravelling, resealing and re-carpeting. You might bring a figure from a neighbouring country where they did re-sealing and not re-construction and construction. I was talking about re-construction and construction. That is the answer I gave. If I may give an example of what is happening at the moment--- I want to ignore what happened during the time of the KANU Government, in which Mr. J. Nyagah served as a Minister. That time, roads were meant to last only two years. But this Government is ensuring that roads that are being constructed will last their designed period of time. There is the example of the Kitui-Kangonde Road which is currently under construction. The average cost of construction per kilometre is Kshs25.3 million. You can see the construction standards of the Sultan Hamud-Mtito-Andei Road. The cost of construction was Kshs48.5 million per kilometre. The Mai Mahiu-Naivasha Road, which is currently under construction, will cost Kshs62.4 million per kilometre. Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I also add that all foreign-funded constructions cost more than locally-funded constructions because of stringent conditions that are imposed by the donors. For example, only contractors from the European Union (EU) are allowed to tender for EU-funded construction works. So, they tender very highly because they have to mobilise their teams to come from overseas."
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