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"content": "Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My constituency is the largest. It is actually a country called “North Horr”, not a constituency. From the outset, I really want to support the Kenya Roads Bill, 2015. The principal object of this Bill is to give effect to the First Schedule of our Constitution in relation to the roads subsector in our country. The Bill proposes to review, consolidate and rationalise the legal institutional framework for the management of the road subsector in our country. In doing so, the Bill proposes to amend a number of relevant Road Acts prevailing today to ensure that they are aligned with our current Constitution. These includes the Kenya Roads Act, 1999, the Kenya Roads Act, 2007 and other old laws some dating back to 1920. The Bill establishes two institutions although one has been there before, but will have a different function now, namely, KeNHA. The second institution is what will replace what we today call KeNHA which is called KeNSRA. In addition to having these two institutions, the Bill goes further and proposes a new formula for sharing the fuel levy fund, where 40 per cent will go to KeNHA, 32 per cent to KeNSRA, 15 per cent to county government and one per cent to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). An additional 10 percent will be given to the Kenya Roads Board with the approval of the CS on emergency interventions and other activities that are to be undertaken by the State. This will be in addition to the two institutions. The Bill further provides for clear criteria of classification of roads in our country. This is very important because the last time our roads were classified was about 30 years ago. This Bill provides clear definitions of “county roads” and “national roads”. The national Government is responsible for classes of road starting from “S”, “A”, “D”, “H”, “G”, “J” and “C”, while county governments have more functions as their roads range from classes “E”, “F”, “G”, “K”, “L”, “M”, “N” and “P”. This covers by far a more vast area than the roads to be covered by the national Government. With this, we hope the county governments will be clear on the roads for which they are responsible and for which the national Government is responsible. I hope the court cases by the Council of Governors (CoG) will end and this will enable us to do what we can with the Kshs18 million that we get every year at the constituency level. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I really have to appreciate what the former President Kibaki’s administration and the current Jubilee Government have done for the people of upper Eastern, namely, Marsabit and Isiolo counties. In the last about five years, over 450 kilometres of road have been tarmacked from Isiolo all the way to Moyale. Today, there are three contractors on site, namely, two Chinese and a Turkish and very good work is being done. For sure, the life of the people of Marsabit County has changed. In the past, it took us three days from Moyale to Nairobi and most of the time we were carried together with cows, goats or in big trucks because The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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