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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "so that Members who have problems, Members who according to Article 95 of the Constitution should address issues affecting the people… We sought to answer Members who have been asking a lot of questions. In most constituencies bridges have been damaged. Therefore, I am asking Hon. Members to agree with us that Kshs.30 million should be given to every constituency, and this totals to about Kshs.8.7 billion. However, the analysis from this Ministry is that this amount is only for reconstructing the country to get back to normal. However, we have the normal construction of roads and low volume Class C roads and the 10,000 kilometers roads which we were promised. Out of those, the ones which are ongoing are 6,000 kilometers. Therefore, we have a deficit of 4,000 kilometers and the reason is because we do not have funds. My Committee, in consultation with the Ministry, realised that for the people of Kenya to get the roads in good time, we should ask this Parliament to add that department Kshs115 billion so that they can complete the roads in good time. Many people are asking us where this money will come from, but I want to plead, convince and persuade the Hon. Members. We had brought a proposal that the Department of Infrastructure through the Treasury be allowed to issue an infrastructure bond of Kshs200 billion. We have looked for resources as a Committee to securitise the bond such as fuel levy. This country is collecting about Kshs65 billion from fuel levy every year. If we can tie only Kshs10 billion from the fuel levy to manage and service our bond, then I want to assure the Members that we will deliver the 10,000 kilometers in four years. That is our recommendation. Observation No.2 and recommendation on the road sector which we are asking this House to agree with us is this: We are proposing the annuity regulation to be amended. This will enable the annuity fund collect about Kshs39 billion to be used by the Ministry to fund other infrastructural programmes. This is apart from the Public Private Partnership (PPP) that was being targeted. Secondly, the State Department of Transport has purposed… Let me start with the State Department of Housing and Urban development. As you know, this is where the one million houses are domiciled. However, we have a budget of Kshs11 billion this financial year in the Budget which has been presented. As the Hon. Members will agree with us, the Kshs.11 billion is supposed to target urban centres in the Kenya Urban Programme. One problem we have is that the Kshs11 billion in the Budget will be spent to improve infrastructure, sewerage, electricity and urban roads in 59 urban centres in this country. Hon. Members and Kenyans are asking which 59 urban centres those are. I want to tell them they are in every county apart from Nairobi and Mombasa counties because of their status. We want to upgrade other small urban centres to look like Nairobi or Mombasa in future. We saw two problems facing this project and one is the survey from the Ministry and particularly Kajiado County, where they forgot a very big town which is the bedroom of Nairobi - Kitengela. Our proposal was that the Ministry should review the 59 urban centres. How can you forget Kitengela when you are talking about Kajiado County? Is that not a small city and a bedroom for Nairobi? So, the Ministry should consider that and review that programme. Number two; we were being informed as a Committee that the money is going to be transferred to what we call urban committees in the counties. We asked ourselves where those urban committees are. They are nowhere in this country and Hon. Members will bear me witness that those urban committees have not even been established. Therefore, we are saying that this money shall be spent at the source, which is at the Ministry. Because those urban committees are not in place, the counties can participate in designing the programmes, submit them to the Ministry and then the Ministry can proceed in terms of implementation. 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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