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"speaker_name": "Mr. Nguyai",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The current status and usage of the council grader based at the Butere-Mumias County Council is as follows:- The council owns a Komatsu Grader Registration No.KAH 090Y. This is an old grader which develops frequent mechanical breakdowns. The council has managed to keep it in good condition through repairs and maintenance for road grading in the council’s areas of jurisdiction. It is important to note that the responsibility of the maintenance of the rural roads now rests with the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) and as such the council no longer receives Road Maintenance Levy Fund from the Kenya Rural Roads Board for roads maintenance. However, through the Local Authority Transfer Fund (LATF) and cess programmes, the council uses the grader to maintain and rehabilitate the roads as identified by stakeholders and citizens through the Local Authority Service Delivery Action Plan (LASDAP) and cess committee. It is also important to note that the council will have minimal resources and no funding for roads. It cannot maintain all the roads in the greater Butere-Mumias jurisdiction. (b) The roads maintained using the council graders are as per attached list in Appendix 1 which we have availed to the hon. Member. (c) To generate revenue, the council hires out the grader at a flat rate of Kshs. 25,000 only for eight hours a day which is cheap compared to the Ministry of Roads Mechanical Department’s rate. During the 2009/2010 Financial Year, Kshs1,040,480 was raised by the council through the hiring of the grader. In the 2010/2011 Financial Year, Kshs2,816,125 was collected from the hiring of the grader making a total collection of Kshs3.856 million in the 2009/2010 Financial Year."
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