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    "id": 730478,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/730478/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1453,
        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
        "slug": "johana-ngeno-kipyegon"
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    "content": "In my county, some contractors were awarded tenders to construct roads in the 2013/2014 Financial Year. The contractors constructed the roads, but they have not been paid up to date. I am talking about 2013/2014 Financial Year. So, what happened to the subsequent years? So, when somebody says that he has constructed roads in the county--- I heard him read that he has done a number of kilometres of roads, but the truth is that the contractors who constructed those roads are still being owed money by the county government. I wonder what senators are doing about this problem. They are just giving us headache here. They always want us to go for mediation. Senators are becoming too idle, complacent or are accomplices in this issue. Look at them. About three-quarters of them want to be governors. So, they do not want to make any laws that will help take care of that money. It is because they also want to go there and eat. The function of Senators is to ensure that county governments are functioning. If these counties are going to fail, we will blame Senators because they are the ones who have failed to make laws that will ensure county governments function properly. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was money allocated for the purpose of construction of roads. I think this House messed in a way when it embarked on a mission to classify roads. As we speak, the governors purport to have taken all the roads except the national highways and yet there is nothing they are doing on them. We were comfortable when the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA) used to construct and manage roads in this country. Today, roads are impassable almost everywhere. If you want to put some money in that sector, they tell you it is a function of the county government; if you want to put money in the health sector, they tell you that it is a function of the county governments and if you want to put money in Early Childhood and Development Education (ECDE), or polytechnics, they tell you the same thing. Please, Senators, stop being idle. Work on these matters and make our counties function. I support. Thank you"
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