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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, before I make a few observations from the public, it is good to know and tell the nation and the Members that this Bill is trying to address three things critically. One is to actualise the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution in terms of saying which roads will go to the counties and which ones shall be national. This is very critical and I would like to request the Members to check the Third Schedule of this Bill. It is very important to say so that when you give the reactions from the public, you will mirror what is actually in the Bill. If you look at that Schedule in terms of assigning the roads, you will see that the national Government has been given Classes S, A, B, H, J, C and D. Those are the roads which are supposed to be proposed in the Bill to be under the national Government. As for the county government, it begins from E to P. That is in actualising the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, so that we can reduce the misunderstanding of which roads are under the national Government and which ones are under the county Government. If you look at it critically, you will find that those classes have been given descriptions which somebody might call definitions, but we take from our Committee as functions, so that it can be understood by all Members. That is the first and very critical function that this Bill was trying to address. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it also goes on to assign responsibilities. This is very important for the House to appreciate. From Class 12, you find that agencies have been created to perform certain specific functions in terms of doing roads. It is important for the House to appreciate that four agencies have been created. One of them is called KNSRA. For Members to understand, it used to be KeRRA. It has since been renamed KNSRA. If you go further, KeNHA remains KeNHA, but in a new description. If you go forward, you will find that KURA has been renamed KNUR in this Bill. So, a Member should get used to these words so that as we debate and pray that the Bill is passed, we understand them. Also, there is the Kenya Roads Board under the assigning of these roads. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is good to understand because I know KeRRA is at the heart of Members. It is very critical. I know they will ask me to quickly go there. Before I do that, this is how the roads have been assigned to the agencies in the Bill. Classes S, A and B are under KeNHA although it shall be a new agency. If you go forward, you find that Classes H and J have been assigned to what was KURA, which is now KNUR. The Bill is then proposing KNSRA, which was KeRRA, to remain with classes C and D. Counties will then begin from E going downwards until Class P. This is very critical. As we debate later, you will find that it is important to have said that. The third and final thing that this Bill is trying to attempt to do is to divide revenue which is coming from the maintenance levy. It is important for Members to appreciate the revenue so that when we discuss and looking at what is happening, we can understand the issues. The Bill has proposed a sharing formula of the Road Maintenance Levy Fund amongst the various entities. It proposes that KeNHA gets 35 per cent, KeRRA 30 per cent, KURA 10 per cent, county governments 15 per cent, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) 1 per cent, the CS 6 per cent, KRB 1 per cent and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) 1 per cent. This makes a total of 100 per cent. The Bill was taken for public participation, where various stakeholders made their submissions on what they thought about it. As has been said before, this Bill was considered in the last Parliament. It died with the last Parliament, but it has been brought back to us. This is the best opportunity to address it properly. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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