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    "id": 1625776,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1625776/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the person who has my papers has been locked outside. Sorry about that, Sen. Joe Nyutu, Senator for Murang’a County. I will go straightaway to the answer on the question on KeNHA and why they use privately-owned vehicles for patrol on highways, who owns these patrol vehicles and what plans the KeNHA has to acquire its own patrol vehicles like other state corporations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to respond as follows- (a) The KeNHA utilizes privately-owned motor vehicles as it outsources road maintenance work through performance-based contracts. Under these contracts, particularly on critical roads such as Thika Super Highway Road and the Nairobi Southern Bypass, the scope includes regular road patrols to monitor compliance with traffic regulations, rapid response to include incidences and breakdowns, protection of road infrastructure, including street lighting and guardrails and immediate assistance on motorists in distress. The arrangement ensures efficient maintenance while enhancing overall road safety. (b) On the patrol vehicles that are owned, they are owned by performance-based contractors who are assigned the performance-based contracts in terms of maintenance contractors which are competitively procured in compliance with the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal (PPAD) Act, 2015 through the open tender method. (c) The KeNHA does not intend to procure its own patrol vehicles for maintenance work as it considers the maintenance-based contract arrangements a more suitable approach. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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