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    "id": 1552988,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirichir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": "routine maintenance contract. The Masii-Mwala section has been under maintenance through a periodic maintenance contract covering Kyumvi-Machakos-Wamunyu Road and Makutano-Mwala Road. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with respect to the designs of Kajiado-Loitoktok, design was completed a while ago and will be updated once funds for construction are available. We do not have funds for that road, Sen. Dan Maanzo. We can look at that and see how to prioritize. The Emali-Ukia road was designed to completion as part of the East Africa Economic Corridor, including the following roads, Kathiani, Kambaa, Mwala, Makutano, all the way down to that loop road that has passed and includes Matiliku-Kilili-Kwa Philip-Wote-Ukia Junction, all the way to Makutano Junction and Wamunyu. The design has been completed and construction shall commence. We are working on the budgetary allocation. The ongoing maintenance works are being implemented in accordance with the standard specification for roads and bridges, special specification and further construction of the newly designed section will also comply with relevant standards. The construction timelines for the future contracts whose designs have been completed will be set once funds become available. Currently, there is no ongoing construction requiring acquisition of land. However, for the future, construction projects whose design have been carried out, compensation for land to be acquired will be done once funds become available.  Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on Question No.45 by Sen. Dullo on the matter of incomplete projects for construction and upgrade of roads undertaken by the KURA and the KeRRA in Isiolo County, let me respond as follows. I will make a general statement on the delayed project with respect to roads, not just in Isiolo, but the country at large. The Ministry of Roads and Transport through the KURA has one ongoing project for upgrading to bitumen standard in Isiolo Town funded under GoK development fund. I have given the details for this particular upgrading of the 10-kilometres Isiolo Town Road, which is funded by GoK. We have a funding allocation of Kshs838 million and the contract is ongoing. The amount certified today is Kshs255.07 million and the percentage of work done is 34.49 per cent. The amount due to the contract to date has advanced payment is Kshs83.8 million and there is a pending bill payment of one Kshs121 million. The challenges include delayed disbursement of funds to the contractors, road encroachment within the construction corridor and heavy rains amongst others. I want to address the challenge of delayed roads due to pending bills and say that when we got approval to securitize the Kshs7 additional road maintenance levy that we got Parliament's approval sometime in July last year. We have securitized Kshs7 and that is basically selling the Kshs7 to an investor who gives us money today or who has given us money today and they then take the right of the Kshs7 and collect the over discounted over a period of time. Today we have so far received Kshs63 billion. We have allocated those funds to pay contractors 40 per cent of all outstanding invoices on certificates for work done. We have worked on a return-to- 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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