{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=147724","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=147722","results":[{"id":1495422,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495422/?format=json","text_counter":306,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Okay. Give him the microphone."},{"id":1495423,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495423/?format=json","text_counter":307,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. TJ Kajwang’","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, when this debate ensued, it came to my mind that probably going forward, the Ministry should adopt a national policy that this"},{"id":1495424,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495424/?format=json","text_counter":308,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. TJ Kajwang’","speaker":null,"content":"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."},{"id":1495425,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495425/?format=json","text_counter":309,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. TJ Kajwang’","speaker":null,"content":"assignment where a contractor leaves for the other is really the problem that is hindering the completion of roads."},{"id":1495426,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495426/?format=json","text_counter":310,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. TJ Kajwang’","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you."},{"id":1495427,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495427/?format=json","text_counter":311,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"We hear you. Hon. Makali."},{"id":1495428,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495428/?format=json","text_counter":312,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kanduyi, FORD-K","speaker_title":"Hon. John Makali","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to ask this Supplementary Question. There is this road that links Kakamega County and Bungoma County — the Navakholo-Dorofu-Sang’alo-Musikoma Road — that was abandoned way back in 2017. His predecessor, I think, was in this House and assured us that they were going to advertise the road, and it was re-advertised. Can the Cabinet Secretary confirm to this House and the people of Kanduyi that the tendering process as a result of the re-advertisement is now complete? Secondly, when do we expect a contractor on the road so that I cease these endless visits to the Office of the Director-General and the anxiety the people who stay in that particular place are having because that road has remained like that from 2017 and is totally not motorable? Thank you."},{"id":1495429,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495429/?format=json","text_counter":313,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Hon. (Dr) John K Mutunga spoke off the record)"},{"id":1495430,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495430/?format=json","text_counter":314,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mhe. Mutunga, wacha ajibu hizo kwanza."},{"id":1495431,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1495431/?format=json","text_counter":315,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr Davis Chirchir","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker and Hon. Members. Let me take the concern on assignment of the road. Let me state that the assignee takes the full responsibility, including providing performance guarantee for the works that have been assigned. Why do we assign, Hon. Members? If we want to go through a re-tendering process, of course we take time, but second and more importantly, you want to maintain the old rates. You know that if a road was awarded in 2017, we assign with the same terms. If we re-tender in 2024, it will come with a cost of today. So, there is merit in assigning where there is a contractor willing to be assigned. Like I said, a company like China Railway No.10 Engineering has the capacity. I indicated that I had a meeting with them last week and I am going to call them again. The outstanding amount of about Ksh50 million is not much. I will make sure we start with making the road motorable. A case in question, for example, is when we did this road from Kwale to Kinango to facilitate movements of the constituents to Mashujaa Day. We asked the contractor to make the road to be motorable first so that as they upgrade the road to bitumen standard, the road will be in a very good murram condition. I will undertake to ensure that China Railway No.10 makes this road all the way to Luanda motorable first, and secondly, an assignee with full responsibility and performance being assigned to them, to finish the road now that we have a contractor, I said has capacity. Finally, we are equally working and ensuring that we pay all the pending bills in due course as we work together to support the securitization of the seven shillings. With respect to Navakholo, Hon. Makali, I am told the tendering process has been completed, an intention of award has been done, and subject to those number of days lapsing, the award should be done by 14th November 2024, which is tomorrow. Again, we will continue to pursue to ensure that we address the challenge that runs across most of the counties particularly through the securitization and ensuring that we pay the pending bills. Thank you."}]}