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    "id": 648292,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/648292/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to comment on this Petition. I was in Kitale the other day and I used part of the road that has been made. I was invited by Hon. Chris Wamalwa. I can say that the stalling of that project may have nothing to do with Government input. It is a series of problems that are becoming chronic in this country. It is about giving tenders to “cow boy” contractors who have no capacity to perform. They only demonstrate capacity on paper but when it comes to the actual implementation or construction of the roads, they are a problem to the Government. The other day, I saw in a newspaper a certain contractor in Murang’a County who had stayed on a road for two years and yet, he had been paid one-third of the money. The problem is not only restricted to western Kenya, but in Mount Kenya East as well. Mate Road, which starts from Runyenjes Constituency, goes through Tharaka Nithi Constituency, Chuka/Igambang’ombe and terminates in Nkubu. It has taken seven years under one contractor. I do not know what those contractors give to the Government for them to keep on winning contracts and yet, they keep on causing delays in the construction of the roads. Why can they not be banned once and forever? I remember during the time of the late Hon. Michuki, contractors would be removed from the sites and new ones allocated the same roads. The idea of giving one contractor a road with many kilometres should stop. We should have several contractors being given one road so that they can be competing. That way, we can know who is working and who is not. By doing so, we will get rid of this problem. I support the Petition."
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