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    "content": "Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) for Financial Years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026. You may recall that on Thursday, 28th September 2023, the House considered and passed a resolution on projected ceilings for the Kenya Rural Roads Authority for the financial years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026. In the resolution, the House resolved that the ceilings for the Road Maintenance Levy Fund, under KeRRA for the financial years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, be maintained as per the formula setting out percentages in Section 6 of the Kenya Roads Board Act, 1999 as follows: 1. Kenya Rural Roads Authority: 32 per cent, that is, 22 per cent for constituency roads and 10 per cent for critical link roads. 2. Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA):15 per cent. 3. Kenya National Highways Authority: 40 per cent. 4. Kenya Wildlife Service: 1 per cent. 5. Emergency interventions or the Cabinet Secretary: 10 per cent. 6. Kenya Roads Board (KRB) administration: 2 per cent. The House further directed that the Director-General of KeRRA vacates, in writing, the Memo Ref. KeRRA/0502/Vol.2(185) dated 16th August 2023 addressed to regional directors of the Authority and report the vacation to the House within seven days from 28th September 2023. The Ministry has since reverted the matter vide a letter dated 2nd October 2023 and the Ministry states that KRB has revised the annual funding ceilings for all road agencies for financial years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 as per the formula setting out percentages in Section 6 of the Kenya Roads Board Act, 1999. The projected funding ceiling for KeRRA for financial years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 have been revised upwards in accordance with the law and communicated to the Authority vide a letter Ref/KRB/Vol/XA42 dated 27th September 2023. The Director General of KeRRA is expected to communicate the revised annual ceilings per constituency for financial years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, amounting to Ksh69,060,575.40 and Ksh72,060,895.03, respectively, to regional directors of the Authority with immediate effect. The Board has, as at August 2023, disbursed to all road authorities 25 per cent of the annual ceilings of the Road Maintenance Levy Fund for the Financial Year 2023/2024. The Board has also disbursed the sum of Ksh11,627,536,327, amounting to 50 per cent of KeRRA’s annual budget. I wish to reiterate the resolve by the House that all actions by the State agencies must, without fail, be within the law. The onus of this communication is that the concerns that were raised by Members in regard to the purported reduction of 22 per cent has since been revised upwards. This communication also states that part of the amounts to the road agencies have been sent to those very particular agencies, and that is 25 per cent of that amount, which has gone to the annual ceilings of the gross maintenance. The other agencies have also received a further 25 per cent, making a total of 50 per cent to the KeRRA’s annual budget. Clearly, Members do not need to worry about KeRRA roads. In any case, Members should celebrate the upward revision. That is the Statement for this Thursday. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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