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"content": "The state of all ongoing projects in the Ministry under the three roads implementing agencies of Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) - as has been attached in annex one - Kenya Urban Authority (KURA) - as annex two - and Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) - as annex three---. I have with me here an annex which has the status of all the roads under the three institutions. They have been tabulated as follows: There is a proeject name, brief description (scope of works), project location, that is, in which county they belong, the contractor, the contract sum in shillings, the source of funding, the road length in kilometres, the pending bills as at 31st October, 2013, the physical progress achieved in percentage and we have the status of implementation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, under KeRRA, we have about 58 roads that are ongoing and I would table this report afterwards so that the hon. Senator can go through. Under KURA, it is tabulated by counties and the Ministry is undertaking routine and periodic maintenance road works funded through the fuel levy funds and some new construction projects funded through the development vote. Currently, there are no stalled projects under KURA. However the ongoing projects are experiencing slow progress due to delay in payments from the Exchequer. The list is also attached. It is about 24 roads tabulated with county, the name of the road, the contract sum and the status; that is, how far it has gone in terms of percentage. We also have development projects that are under construction. This is also attached. It has the name of the county, the name of the contractor, the contract sum, the commencement date, the completion date as expected and it has progress and remarks. It is a list of 37 projects. Under KeNHA, there are ongoing road development projects. We also have a tabulation in the annex, including the location, the counties traversed, the scope of works, the contract sum, the budget for the year ending 2013/2014, we have funding model, the status, the contract period, the commencement and completion date. Therefore, a list of 41 ongoing projects under KeNHA has been tabulated in this response. The Government is undertaking the following measures in order to arrest the stalling of Sigalagala-Butere-Sidindi Road and to make it motorable. (i) Arranging to pay the contractor Kshs100 million out of the outstanding payment certificate by the end of last week; that is the week ending 15th November, 2013. (ii) Road maintenance levy funds amounting to Kshs7,000,000 have been disbursed to the KeRRA regional office to fund improvement to motorable standards of the bad sections of the road ahead of the section the contractor was working on before he suspended his work. The Government is aware that the local contractors have been forced to undertake cost cutting measures which include temporarily laying off some of the staff. The Government is aiming at providing funds to the contractors to jumpstart those projects that had stalled and those that had slowed down through the supplementary budget provisions from the National Treasury. Once the contractors are paid, production will be jumpstarted hence young Kenyans will retain their jobs. Additionally, under the access to Government opportunities or what is being referred to ad hoc, preferences and reservations programme under Treasury, the 30 per cent national Government procurement will be reserved for youths, women, and people with disabilities. In the current financial year budget, no allocation was made for KeRRA and KURA. However, the national Government has now made arrangements to fund the ongoing projects The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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