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    "id": 1552987,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirichir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": "Kalandini, D245, and Maseno Town Roads has a current budget of Kshs54 million in the current financial year. We have also indicated the historical budgetary allocation for those two roads. The Ministry, through KeRRA, has planned performance-based maintenance of roads, which are currently in procurement process under various contracts and also progress of works completed as provided in the table attached. That table is annexed. On the third question, measures taken by the Ministry on the projects under KeRRA are to provide sufficient budgetary allocation and further engagement with the National Treasury to allocate more resources to ensure timely completion, engage with contractors to facilitate faster progress. For instance, sub-contracting of works to mitigate capacity constraint on the Maseno-Kombewa-Kalandini Road, sanctioning of contractors for slow progress on Koru Town Junction-C35 Road-Koru Bible College. Further, the Ministry shall prioritise several critical roads for upgrading to bitumen standard in this county and some affirmative action we are currently looking at. I have also given the table that shows ongoing projects under KURA in Kisumu Urban Town; a total of about 9.6 kilometres impacting on various roads from Tom Mboya Loop to Ken Obura-World Vision-Kenya Re-A8 Junction, totaling about Kshs425 million and currently work in progress at 36 per cent. I will say what we are doing to hasten the progress on some of these roads with what you have done with the securitization. Therefore, payment of pending bills that will help us to expedite the work. I would like to proceed to Question No.040 by the Senator of Makueni County, Sen. Dan Maanzo, which is the concern on the construction of Namanga-Kajiado- Loitoktok-Emali-Ukia, all the way to Kithimani Road, the delay in completion of the project. The measures the Government is putting in place to ensure construction works on the road meet the standards and move quickly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Ministry, through Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), is currently not carrying out any construction on the listed roads links due to unavailability of funds. However, maintenance works of existing roads and design, progress are being carried out as tabulated. For example, Namanga-Kajiado section, we have a performance-based contract for maintenance of this section of the road that is divided into two. That is Isinya-Basil, 47.5 kilometres with a budgetary allocation of Kshs137 million. The second section is Basil-Namanga with a budgetary allocation of Kshs353.3 million. On Loitoktok-Emali, we also have a performance-based contract for maintenance of this road, which is also divided into two sections. The section from Emali-Isineti Road is 57 kilometres with a budgetary allocation of Kshs174 million. The second section Isineti-Loitoktok is 56 kilometres, with a budgetary allocation of Kshs197.9 million. It is a three-year maintenance contract which is about to lapse. On Emali-Ukia, a routine maintenance contract is under procurement and works are expected to commence in May. For Mwala-Kathiani, another maintenance contract for maintenance is under procurement and it will be awarded in May. For Ukia-Ithangini is currently maintaining, KeNHA is maintaining this section between Wamunyu and Nduluki Junction, through a 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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