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    "content": "which comes much later; and which is inadequate because it does not go to the ground. There is no physical audit in that case. Therefore, they need to do some physical and social audit so that we can now work on that. That is one of the ways of holding the county governments accountable. Concerning the Committee on Devolved Government, I would like to thank the Members who were in the last Session because they visited my county, represented by Sen. Murkomen, Sen. Lesuuda and Sen. Billow. We had very fruitful discussions, especially, with the county assembly to encourage and enlighten them on what they are supposed to do. These committees are useful so long as they engage the county assemblies as one of the Senators have proposed, even if it is to do some regional meetings so that we enlighten them on what they need to do, what they expect from them so that we can also, through them, effectively conduct our oversight. As is in the case of the Committee on Devolved Government, I remember in the Second Session, we had an elaborate exercise by the Senators who broke up into regions and came up with very clear reports on the transfer of functions. However, I would like to bring to the attention of the Senate, that, in one of those recommendations we made; the transfer of the roads function to the counties, we are yet to get there because as a Member of the Committee on Roads and Transport, recently, we had a workshop where the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Transitional Authority (TA) were represented. I would like to remind the Senate that we had recommended that the roads function be devolved to the counties. By then, only 39 counties asked for that function to be devolved. When the Senate recommended that transfer be gazetted by the Attorney General, we were told that there was an objection by the National Assembly Committee on Roads and Transport. With that, the Attorney General did not gazette that and the Council of Governors had to go to court. The court found our position to have been correct and the Attorney General was found to be on the wrong for not doing that. Two weeks ago, the TA and the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure went ahead and gazetted a list of roads based on classification of the county roads and national Government roads. Looking at that list, it was very clear that what was gazetted was not what was known to have been the roads as they were. I remember that the Senate’s recommendation was that Class A, B and C roads be the national road while Class D, E and unclassified be the county roads. However, the national Government through the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure gave the TA a list of roads classified not as they were before the new Constitution was passed but it was a new list with new classifications. I say this because I have the benefit of having been in that sector for a long time. By the time I left as the regional manager of Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) – I know the classification of roads and what was given that day is something different. So, the only logical reason why those things were done was that there was this aspect of the Members of the National Assembly through their current Constituency Roads Committee handling some particular roads. For Members of the National Assembly to continue handling those roads, then the roads have to be classified as national roads; which means they have to be either class A, B or C. So, if you go through that list casually, even class E roads are now classified as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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