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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "did the feasibility study at a whopping Kshs1 billion has now been awarded the main tender. At what cost? We will be surprised that the cost of the main project is a staggering Kshs14 billion. It is not possible to justify that you could move from a feasibility study at the cost of Kshs1 billion and proceed to the main project and award it to the same company without going through the process of tendering at a cost of Kshs14 billion. It is also alleged that the Israeli Government was going to support that other phase of the project. There is no contract, whatsoever, as we speak between the Government of Kenya and the Israeli Government concerning that very project. But as we speak, this project has been signed off and the company which was given that contract has already been given an award letter yet the Government which is supposed to finance it; the Israeli Government, has not committed even a single cent. Now we are being told to come here and rubberstamp something which has been conceived in the background somewhere by some people with the objectives which we are not clear about. This is not acceptable. Unless we are careful, this House could be rubberstamping a very serious fraud. There is no gainsaying the fact that this 10,000 kilometer road project is important to all of us even though we have issues with the way the road network is being distributed, as we speak. It is something that still needs to be debated as to how we arrived at the formula of distributing that road network. We cannot, as a House, sit here and approve something that is going to haunt all of us, including our children and grandchildren. In my view, this proposal needs to be reviewed. It needs to be relooked at keenly by the Committee concerned and by the Treasury so that they can come back with a more reasonable proposal. Otherwise as we speak, what we are going to do is going to leave this country in a situation which will be unmanageable. Hon. Speaker, I do not want to talk much because if you go through this Report, you are left wondering even about the hurry in seeking this massive expansion of the debt ceiling. I will want to urge my colleagues in the House to look at this proposal very keenly without rushing to vote on it because if we do not do that, history might judge us extremely harshly. I do not want to belabour the point. With those few remarks, I oppose, and very strongly so."
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