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    "id": 1443832,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason you cannot put the markings is perhaps unless they have finished to the required standards. If you put the marking, you will have to remove again and do it. Based on the experience of this problem across the country, I have been asking the engineers whether we can reverse the decision on how roads are completed. We can do this in such a way that every milestone is complete-complete. That means if you have 10 kilometers and a milestone is one kilometer at a given period, you do the one kilometer up to the markings. Therefore, that is from a policy perspective where we think that we should do that considering that we have a long way to go, so as to complete the remaining kilometers of roads, based on the budgetary allocation. We will look at that widely, but in the meantime, we will try to do some signage and bumps. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the part of the bridge, there is something we are trying to do. The reason maintenance money is becoming difficult to get or apportioning money from the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) is because we have reached our limit. At the moment, our road network has increased by 61,000 kilometers from 2016. The value of the RMLF that we have now has depreciated because the power of the Shilling in 2016 is not the same power of the Shilling today and yet, we still collect Kshs18 per litre. We had a good public participation about increasing the RMLF by Kshs7, so that we raise some money to do this maintenance, and this is another problem across the country. There are roads like the one for Isebania to Kisii whose period for construction by the contractor to construct and maintain is now over and it needs to be handed over to KenHA. There are also other roads that were constructed by our development partners. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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