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    "id": 88085,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/88085/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 197,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
        "slug": "joshua-ojode"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) It is true that the Government may lose Kshs16 million following the demolition of police flats at Central Police Station. The Ministry of Public Works had not sent a prior warning that the flats were being constructed on a road reserve as alleged. The Ministry of Roads was part of an inter-Ministerial Police Task Force on Kenya Police Housing formed in March, 2004. The Ministry of Works carried out on-site investigations, topographical survey, design works and preparation of tender. During the site layout by the Ministry of Works, it was deliberately made sure that the new buildings were ten metres away from the Moi Avenue, University Way. However, during the whole process, it never occurred to the police department that the site encroached into the road reserve. It is at a later stage when the construction had already begun that Nairobi City Council wrote to the contractor informing him that parts of the new blocks were going to be affected by the expansion of the University Way, Moi Avenue. On receipt of this letter, the contractor stopped the works and contacted the project manager who liaised with the Ministry of Roads to ascertain the position."
}