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    "id": 1334248,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1334248/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "There is a comprehensive and modern approach to road maintenance known as performance best maintenance. Under this approach, a service provider is engaged competitively to provide maintenance, which is measured in terms of specified output indicators such as whether surface damage has been repaired promptly, drainages are cleared and vegetation is always trimmed below a given height. The performance-based approach gives strong incentives to serve providers to do quality works at all times since it is the most efficient way to avoid repeat jobs and associated costs. In the ideal scenario, a road should be placed under active performance-based maintenance immediately it is constructed. The arrangement should continue throughout its lifetime until a major upgrade is undertaken. Unfortunately, the KeNHA, whose heavily trafficked roads are well placed to benefit from performance-based maintenance, is currently not able to roll out this approach due to insufficient funds despite getting 40 per cent of the Fuel Levy. The backlog of the road maintenance for the national highways is increasing, meaning that we may start to see potholes on major arteries due to delayed interventions."
}