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    "id": 1342277,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1342277/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndia, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure on its consideration of the Proposed Reduction of Projected Ceilings for the Kenya Rural Roads Authority for the Financial Years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 26th September 2023. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would like to give a background on this matter. On Tuesday, 22nd August 2023, the Committee noted and deliberated on the contents of a communication from the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) Head Office to regional directors regarding the reduction of projected funding ceilings to the constituency roads from 22 per cent to 15 per cent and to the critical road from 10 per cent to 6.8 per cent in the Financial Years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026. The Committee resolved to invite the Director-General of KeRRA and the Director-General of Kenya Roads Board (KRB) to a meeting to deliberate on the matter. In the afternoon sitting of the same day, Tuesday 22nd August 2023, while rising on a point of order, the Member for Nyando, Hon. Jared Okello, raised the matter in the House and sought the direction of the Speaker. The Speaker directed that the Leader of the Majority Party follows up on the matter and respond to the House. The Leader of the Majority Party issued a Statement to the House in the Afternoon Sitting on Thursday, 24th August 2023. In his Statement, he read a submission by the Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport, Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen, which indicated that the lower ceiling issued to KeRRA was made under caution to safeguard the Authority from early procurement of works and the resulting pending bills that may arise if the county governments are funded. The Leader of the Majority Party also informed the House that the matter was before the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, which will further consider the matter and report back to the House. The Committee via a letter dated 28th August 2023, invited the Director-General of KeRRA and Director-General of KRB to a meeting on 6th September 2023. However, the Director-General of KRB, via a letter dated 1st September 2023, requested that the meeting be rescheduled to a later date. The Director-General of KRB gave a written submission. The Director-General for KeRRA also, via a letter dated 5th September, requested that the meeting be rescheduled, but concurring with submissions from KRB. The Committee, having considered the submissions, received the 9th National and County Governments Coordination Summit held in February 2023 in Naivasha resolution that Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) allocation to the counties would be considered in the Financial Year 2024/2025 through a restructured process. Implementation of the resolutions would entail amendments to the KRB Act, 1999, which still needs to be done. Article 95 of the Constitution gives the National Assembly the mandate to enact legislation and determine the allocation of national revenue between the levels of government. Hon. Temporary Speaker, according to the submission by the KRB and the Statement by the Leader of the Majority Party tabled in the House on 24th August 2023, the Legal Notice No.2 of 2016 classified the county road network into national trunk roads - Class S, A, B and 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."
}