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    "id": 89549,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 157,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Kipng'etich Bett",
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    "content": "Let me touch briefly on the achievements and performance of the year 2009/2010. The Ministry has been able to meet nearly all its physical targets as per the Performance Evaluation Committee. At the end of the financial year, the Ministry had achieved targets as follows: We had planned to reconstruct and rehabilitate roads totalling 274 kilometres. We managed 315 kilometres which exceeds the target by 14 per cent. We also intended to do new construction of 350 kilometres and we managed 385 kilometres which exceeds the target by 10 per cent. Roads 2000, we had planned 1,500 kilometres and we only managed 886 kilometres, that is 59 per cent of our target. Between periodic maintenance and routine maintenance, I want to explain that routine maintenance programme lagged behind due to transitional bottlenecks and the late amendments of the Kenya Roads Board Act that abolished District Road Committees and introduced Constituency Roads Committees. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the roads that were completed in the 2009/2010 are Machakos Turn off-Sultan Hamud, JKIA-Uhuru Highway-Gigiri, Lanet- Njoro Turn off, St. Mary Nyakahura-Irima-Kabati-Kagunduini-Mareria and Kitui- Kang’onde including Kisii-Kilgoris and Farm Kawiro-Mutwate. Roads to be completed this year include Machakos Turn off-JKIA and the contractor is on site, Njoro Turn off- Timboroa. This is the road that they are concluding and they are now doing the final works. There is also Isiolo-Merille Road which is also coming to an end. There is Emali- Oloitokitok-Mai Mahiu-Narok. I want to indicate that on this road, we were taken back by an act that is associated with climate change. The road was washed away because of what we did not anticipate. We had to put in a further Kshs350 million to raise the level of the road so that we could be able to make bigger box culverts. Then there is Namanga-Athi-River, the Eastern by-pass, Dundori-Ol Kalou- Njabini. On the Njabini Road, we were late mainly because of inability to move our own brothers and sisters from the road when we had compensated them. I want to thank the area Member of Parliament because he has been very supportive and we have concluded. In conclusion, for my Ministry to be able to finance its total expenditure, I am asking this House to approve a sum of Kshs104, 217,682,104 for both Recurrent and Development expenditures for the year 2010/2011. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask Eng. M. M. Mahamud, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Energy to second."
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