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"speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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"content": "have been done but were instead postponed and deferred. Specifically, the projected resources needed for the road maintenance levy fund for 2024/2025 Financial Year is Kshs110 billion while the anticipated collection for that same year is Kshs69 billion, a shortfall of about Kshs40 billion. This funding shortfall risks reversing the trend of ever-improving road pavement conditions that citizens are now accustomed to and take for granted. This problem is cross-cutting and affects both the roads in KeNHA, KURA, KeRRA and roads maintained by the Kenya Wildlife Services. We anticipate that in due course, the Government will bring a proposed legislation to address the road maintenance challenges. I am working on a Cabinet Memo to think of how else we are going to do what we need to do, including what in my response to the Deputy Party Leader of the Democratic Party (DP), that tolling and increase of Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF, we have even proposed that RMLF should increase to Kshs25 shillings per litre by the year 2025 if we are going to bridge the gap that is in place. I will be coming back to this House on the same. So, specifically to this Question now, and briefly because I have given the global figure, the total pending bill for KeNHA as of 31st January 2024 is Kshs87,090,907,106 and the proportion of the interest on delayed payment is Kshs4,000,803,584, whereas the KURA, the total pending bill is Kshs15,548,928,533 and the interest of delayed payment is Kshs18,306,207. The respective pending bills for both Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) are attached the response. I do not know why the Deputy Speaker did not ask about Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). I should have also included, in my statement, the global figure for you to appreciate that Kshs87 billion plus Kshs18 billion. The difference is about Kshs60 billion is on the KeRRA roads. The delay in settling the pending bills was caused by the budget cuts during the supplementary budget processing and delayed receipt of exchequer funding. The Ministry is in constant liaison with the National Treasury to ensure that adequate consideration is given to project funding during budget preparation process. The Ministry also seeks the indulgence of this House, which is the enacting authority for legislation, to support programmes that relate to alternative mechanisms for raising funds. I am amending that section specifically because this is not the National Assembly. Article 227 of the Constitution provides for the procurement and asset disposal system that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective. The public procurement has previously undergone serious reforms and currently, Article 227 is being operationalized by the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015 and Public Procurement Asset Disposal Regulations, 2020. All procurement across the road agencies in KeNHA, KeRRA and KURA are done in strict adherence and compliance with provisions of the Act and its tender regulation. The Act provides a roadmap on the procurement process from planning and"
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