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    "id": 123926,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Machage",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg your indulgence that I use a few minutes to explain to the Member these issues. The Kenya Roads Board Act provides broad guidelines for allocation of the projected collections of the RMLF to road agencies within any financial year. The equitable portion of the RMLF to be disbursed to districts is derived directly from the projected collections. After identifying the ceiling broadly, the equitable portion of the RMLF is allocated to:- (a)The Roads Department to complete on-going projects. (b) The Ministry of Local Government to fund maintenance of Roads. (c)The balance is equitably distributed to all the 71 districts as per the number of districts at that time. It is anticipated, therefore, that with time, the equitable portion allocated to the roads department reduces the balances to direct disbursement and the Ministry of Local Government that he is querying about Nairobi, will increase with the counterparts contributions. It should be understood that every local authority, and I mean the cities, municipalities and town councils, is found within a district. They form the economic centres of the rural communities. The district can contribute to poverty alleviation and wealth creation of the rural people. Funding, therefore, and improvement of infrastructure within these local authorities contributes to the socio-economic improvement of the rural communities and is very much governed by the parameters that I have already said. Certainly the population of Nairobi is far much higher than that of Koibatek and hence the difference in the amounts allocated."
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