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    "id": 968788,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "As we speak, a number of roads have stagnated literally. This morning, I was trying to get in touch with the Director-General of KeNHA. I was not able to get him. I do not know how busy he was. I hope he will call me back. I was looking for him because there is a road which was launched by none other than His Excellency the President in my constituency. It cuts through Ugunja and Alego Usonga constituencies, the famous Ugunja, Ukwala-Rwambwa Road. That road has been mismanaged and the President promised to come back and commission it. I am wondering what he will come to commission. The Hon. Chair of the Committee, Hon. Pkosing, kindly take note that the work that has been done on that road by the contractor called Covec is shoddy. The contactor is so arrogant that he does not listen to anybody; including the stakeholders who are the villagers and the owners of the road actually. The consulting engineers have literally slept on their job. I must also blame the implementing agency, KeNHA in this case. It is not my nature to deal with those people when they are doing their projects because I believe they know their work. But when you see me intervening, something has gone astray. I do not want to have an engagement with those people in PAC which I chair over shoddy jobs that are done in my constituency because it will create a conflict of interest. But I want the agencies charged with the responsibility of doing those projects to take their work seriously. They use taxpayers’ monies which they cough from their pockets or if it I borrowed, the taxpayers will pay ultimately. They have no excuse to sit on their laurels and hope that things will just remain as they are. The country can no longer afford laxity on the part of the officers that are charged with the responsibility of managing public funds."
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