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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will comment on the Statement by Sen. Mwenda Gataya on the need to have this particular data and the criteria for the allocation of resources for purposes of KURA and KeRRA The Statement will guide the country in building some level of affirmative action with regards to the criteria with which the agencies under the Ministry of Roads and Infrastructure allocate resources. Lately, we have heard comments in the National Assembly, where Members, wherever there are issues regarding the budget allocation, speak about the many infrastructures on roads under KeRRA and KURA ongoing; whereas, there are other places where accessibility, even to some public places is not available because of unavailability of resources. With this Statement, I would wish the membership of this Committee gets facilitated, so that they can deal with it and go beyond the period that the hon. Senator has listed, between 2022/2023 to date. This is so that we ensure we have affirmative action in areas which for a long period of time have been ignored with little or no resources at all in terms of allocation get consideration. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly is to enhance the ability of those agencies to classify the various roads because roads under KURA and KeRRA sometimes fall victim to what we have experienced in our county governments. Resources which have been allocated to a road that is classified KeRRA and KURA can still get allocation from county governments and that allocation is put into abuse by the county government and the relevant agencies within that county government because of double allocation. People use it as an opportunity to steal and misappropriate the resources. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish the Committee that will be involved in dealing with this particular Statement will go beyond the number of years or the period that has been identified, and further ensure that they deal with the aspect of classification. This is so that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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