HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"count": 1608389,
"next": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=api&page=160762",
"previous": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=api&page=160760",
"results": [
{
"id": 1625802,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625802/?format=api",
"text_counter": 147,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Hon. CS, you may respond."
},
{
"id": 1625803,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625803/?format=api",
"text_counter": 148,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer Sen. Faki's question in English ndio nisichanganye sana. The congestion that is experienced around QuickMart and Bamburi area was exacerbated by the fact that we were unable to call the shots on the contractors because we owe them so much money. We have paid them and are now calling the shots. I have visited the road severally, including the day when the President went to inspect that road. The corridor has been very congested around Bamburi Nature Trail and the slip roads could not be done because we needed to compensate for the corridor to move the wall out after compensating the project affected by Eastman. We have compensated the contractors hence you will not see that going forward. We have had meetings with the contractors and I have just come from a meeting this morning. We will ease the traffic, accelerate the construction and finish that road very quickly. The road in Mtwapa and the lower part towards Kilifi is basically complete except for the Mtwapa Bridge and the corridor around there, the small section that has not been tarmacked. There is no reason why the road from Mombasa to Mtwapa is not catching up. I promise that we will accelerate and catch up. We will also address the issues of congestion. We now have money to compensate for the land or project affected person hence we will now be able to open the corridor and have the slip roads to function. This means that there will be no congestion. This happened because we were constructing on a corridor with no additional space and had not paid the project affected persons. With the money now being available, I want to assure this House that this will be a problem of the past. You will see us calling more shots to make sure the contractors do what is right now that we have paid what is due to them. We, therefore, expect them to be facilitative to eradicate the traffic congestions we have witnessed. We also expect to bring the project to completion much sooner than was expected. The delays were due to non-payment of pending bills. On the Causeway Road, not very long ago, the Governor of Mombasa County, Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir, and I were in a meeting with the contractor who is working on that section, Victoria Construction Company. The lights were pulled down when the construction started. The construction has now been completed. The only thing that is pending is the bridge at Kwa Jomvu, which we will finish in the next two months. It is the bridge that was hanging around Synergy. We were also unable to compensate Synergy in order for them to give us space to finish the bridge. So, the bridge was built going up, but the dropping side had been hanging there for five years. That bridge is now being built and it will be completed. The lights will be restored with the completion of that road. With that, when clients arrive at Moi International The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
},
{
"id": 1625804,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625804/?format=api",
"text_counter": 149,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
"speaker": null,
"content": "Airport, Mombasa, they will not get into darkness that has been experienced due to long, delayed construction. Sen. Manzo has raised a question on the success of PPP projects on bridges. My response is that there will be PPP programmes that can work in areas where there is significant traffic. The drivers of success of PPP with respect to investors are the traffic. It is easy to get a project which is bankable for a road where there is so much traffic. A bridge that has no traffic with probably 20 vehicles per day will not repay for the investment even if you are to charge Kshs10 or Kshs15 for vehicles to cross through it. It, therefore, might not give return on the equity or the investment as a business for the next 30, 40 or 50 years."
},
{
"id": 1625805,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625805/?format=api",
"text_counter": 150,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
"speaker": null,
"content": "The bridge we are talking about is a very high traffic area. We are, therefore, looking at possibility of a PPP. However, those of us who know Mombasa very well know that there is a serious road infrastructure transformation in Mombasa. Whether we succeed on PPP or not, we need to open up this bridge through PPP or through Government of Kenya funding. I thank you."
},
{
"id": 1625806,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625806/?format=api",
"text_counter": 151,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "The Speaker",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": null,
"content": "(Hon. Kingi) Can we hear from Sen. Madzayo."
},
{
"id": 1625807,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625807/?format=api",
"text_counter": 152,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Sen. Madzayo",
"speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Ni hatua gani Wizara yako imechukuwa kueleza hao watu wanaotengeneza barabara kwamba kunahitajika kutengeneza barabara za kando kama vile wanavyofanya kule Uchina ama kwingineko? Magari yanaendelea kuharibika sana."
},
{
"id": 1625808,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625808/?format=api",
"text_counter": 153,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me again to respond in English. The Mtwapa Bridge, which is in the second portion of this corridor, is ongoing. It is a very long bridge of about 150 metres. The current bridge is a bit compromised. There is a problem. I know what the Senator is talking about because I have been there a few times. We have compensated the contractor on that road for pending bills. We have compensated the project-affected persons within Mtwapa Town, so that we are now able to connect the second section, which is complete to the Mombasa side, over the bit of compromised bridge. I am confirming that we are accelerating the completion of this bridge. Now that we have got financing on this road, we have paid for project-affected persons on that corridor about Kshs2 billion, which is currently in progress. We have released the full funding to the National Land Commission (NLC) and compensation is going on as we speak. The problem is that when a project takes too long, as you try to compensate you find that the people who were initially in the list have succession issues and so on and so forth, however, the full funding, as we speak now, is with the NLC. The contractor knows that the challenge has been basically removed. We have also compensated the contractor to work to the extent of 40 percent. We want to quickly finish that corridor and ensure that road is motorable and the vehicles are not getting spoiled in that Moshi wa Mwanzo difficult section talked about. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
},
{
"id": 1625809,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625809/?format=api",
"text_counter": 154,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
"speaker": null,
"content": "With respect to the service roads, sometimes as a developing economy, it becomes very difficult to buy land from land users and possibly demolish houses, which have been built very close to the road to build a service road. So it is a case of economics. Do we compensate to build temporary roads while we are building the roads? Where there is a corridor, yes. Where there is no corridor, it becomes a bit of a challenge. Allow me, for the programmes running in Mombasa with the expedited payments, to accelerate the connector between the Mombasa side and the Kilifi side through Mtwapa Bridge very quickly and ensure that we remove that challenge in a very short time. The challenge for a long time was the pending bills and the very slow work that was whatever. With respect to slip roads, which have also been designed, I will seek to have possibly a closer meeting with the Senator to show him the design. There are slip roads around through Mtwapa Town. We have compensated for the inner corridor to move the small traders, so that you can build the main corridor. There are slip roads and because we now have money, we are compensating and we will have slip roads through the town. The challenge was, because we were not able to compensate them, you would not actually know that there are slip roads. When you see the designs, we have designed with service roads, along the main corridor. So we have compensated earlier on through Exchequer release some Kshs73 million to get access to build the main corridor. For slip roads, we have now got money and we are compensating to do the service roads, which are parallel to the main road. You will see that and I can spend some time with Sen. Madzayo to show him the design, the fact that we have compensated for the main artery, and we are now compensating for the service roads through the town. I thank you."
},
{
"id": 1625810,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625810/?format=api",
"text_counter": 155,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Sen. Faki",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": null,
"content": "On a point of order."
},
{
"id": 1625811,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625811/?format=api",
"text_counter": 156,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Sen. Faki, you certainly cannot raise a point of order against the Cabinet Secretary. What is your intervention?"
}
]
}