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"speaker_name": "Mr Davis Chirchir",
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"content": "With respect to the question of when we will see the full amount of the disbursement, I indicated that the amount that we still have, the 10 per cent and the 20 per cent, will be released next week to the extent that it is not within that interim conservatory order issued by the court. We will release Ksh3.5 billion next week to address those roads. Concerning Justice Kemei’s question… What was the question from Justice Kemei? Let me first deal with the low-volume roads. What we will shortly see with the low-volume roads and the orphaned roads is securitisation and the availability of some level of resources for us to repair and reseal them across the country. In effect, a number of those low-volume roads that Mhe. Kemei from Sigowet raised is that they are “orphaned” roads. They have not been allocated resources for maintenance. When we engage the securitisation and what we can do with that money, we should be able to maintain the roads. We are already doing that. Immediately some of the contractors finished the low-volume sealed roads, they were not able to undertake the maintenance which was within the contract because there were so many pending bills that they abandoned the work. Even the last bit of the one-year maintenance was not taken up. Therefore, if today you go to roads like Daraja Sita-Chebole-Labotiet-Emurua Dikirr Road, it is being maintained and resealed because we have unblocked and paid the pending bills. They are able to go and do what was not accomplished under the contract. We will see quite a number of this happening across the whole country. I will just use that as an example. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "With respect to Hon. Ruweida, on Mtaka Wanda- Kizingitini, I will push to make sure the contractor goes to the site next week, if he has not already gone yet. The tenders were done. This is probably the first tarmac road in Lamu East. Mhe. Ruweida, let me take up that next week. Hon. Pkosing, we have been paying the contractors in the last one or two weeks, except that I accompanied His Excellency to China, and unfortunately it has also been raining. It is on top of my agenda. This is what I probably do every day to make sure that the contractors go back to work. I said that every contractor who has been paid 40 per cent signed a settlement agreement which confirms that they will go back to work on payment of the 40 per cent while awaiting the 60 per cent that should be paid within 120 days. The success of our fundraising the 60 per cent, and being paid the balance will be based on how they perform with the 40 per cent. The settlement agreement also pushed the contractors to discount 35 per cent of the interest which they had levied. I wish to confirm to Mhe. Pkosing, and this Parliament that for contractors on any road which had been abandoned due to pending bills, we are getting them to go back to work. If they have not gone back to work, it is just because of the rains or they are servicing the equipment. Some of these massive up-moving equipment have been lying idle for the last two or three years, so a number of them are being serviced. All of them will indiscriminately go back to work upon payment of the 40 per cent which has already happened. I wish to confirm to the House that this will happen if it has not happened already. This is not a matter of months, but days."
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"content": "Hon. Members, I want us to end here."
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"content": " On a point of order."
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"content": "Hon. Mwashako, what is your point of order?"
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Cabinet Secretary has stated in this House that all contractors have returned to their sites, and people are watching this."
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"content": "He has just explained that."
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"content": " The Cabinet Secretary is aware that there is a contractor who has refused to go back to work due to the agreement rates. The agreement rates were set in 2021, and the contractor, Stecol Power China, has been paid 40 per cent. This concerns the Mto Mwagodi-Dawida-Mbale-Wundanyi-Bura Road. The Cabinet Secretary is aware of this because he was present in Taveta when the President visited. The contractor has refused to resume work until the rates are reviewed. Therefore, the Cabinet Secretary needs to clarify this so that my people understand why the contractor is not on site. The statement that all contractors are going back to work is incorrect. We have been expecting the contractor back on site for the last two months. Even the President announced that the contractor would resume operations on a Monday, two months ago. Two months later, that has not happened."
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"speaker_name": "Mr Davis Chirchir",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I confirm that this particular road’s contractor, Stecol Power China, has confirmed he is going back to work. I know the rates for this road were significantly below the market, especially for hilly areas. We have resolved that challenge. The same contractor should be back. If he has not gone back, I encourage Mheshimiwa to see me after this. The Mto Mwagodi Road is not a challenge as we speak today. There are many such other cases because work has been pending for a long time. Several contractors could be seeking rate reviews due to inflation. We have not opened this up yet. That was a challenge for this particular road, but we have already addressed the concern The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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