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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "to get a response, first of all, we invite the Senator who sought it, so that he can give us more information and understand it. In the reporting period, the Committee held the following two consultative meetings– One, with the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development to deliberate on conditional grants to counties on the Kenya Urban Support Programme, KUSP 2, and the Kenya Informational Informal Settlement Improvement Project, that is KIISIP 2. The Committee will be further engaging the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development to ensure that eligible counties are prepared to absorb the funds from the grants. However, we noted most counties are not prepared to absorb these funds. Two, with the Ministry of Roads and Transport to deliberate on the conditional grant to counties on the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). The committee established that the Ministry of Roads and Transport was not willing to disburse the RMLF funds to counties in pretext of being required not to do so by the National Assembly through a resolution of 28th September, 2023. The same is evidenced by the failure of the National Assembly to include the RMLF share to counties in the County Government Additional Allocation Bill, 2024. On this one, we hope the new Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Chirchir, will agree with the committee on how to give these funds to the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this period, the committee visited the Roads and Transport Authority of the United Arab Emirates, so as to enhance the capacity of the committee on policy framework and operations in the areas of bus rapid transit system and road tolling system. The Committee experienced the following challenges – (1) Delayed response to statements, petitions and enquiries by Government agencies. The committee experienced cases of delayed response to information sought partly because some statements were not clear as to where to seek the information between the national Government agencies and the county governments. (2) Non-attendance of the meetings to consider responses to statement by Senators who requested the statements. This delayed conclusion of the statements. Therefore, the committee also adopted another methodology by inviting the Senators to our committee through letters. We can file those letters and whenever they are needed, we can produce to the Senate to show that so-and-so failed to appear before the committee. Once we consider the statement without the Senator in question, nobody would blame the committee, Madam Temporary Speaker, with that, I thank you."
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