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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. My concern is drawn from a continuous and systematic micromanagement by the National Treasury of matters that touch on our people directly. As we are considering the issues now, the National Treasury is deliberate on reducing allocation to NG-CDF in the BPS for the Financial Year 2025/2026. I am aware that there are stern instructions to KeRRA regional managers not to issue award letters in the recently publicised notices inviting contractors to undertake works. They deliberately invited bids and have completed the procurement process, but they have been instructed not to issue award letters for works to start just because somebody somewhere wants to control Exchequer releases. We are aware that the money in question is around Ksh10 billion, but the total sum of money is more than the Ksh10 billion. What is happening with the contracts already awarded? It seems someone wants to take advantage of this situation to perpetuate their interest by not allowing funds to be utilised for service delivery on the ground. We have to take a look beyond this. Some people at the National Treasury want to play games with this situation. It is not about the issue in court. The people have a direct interest in manipulating services to the people, especially those being overseen directly at the constituency level. It seems CoG is being facilitated by people on the other side to confuse service delivery. Kenyans have been receiving directly at the constituency level and supervision and oversight being provided at that level. It is time to call a spade a spade. Somebody somewhere must take responsibility for this."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to inform the House and jog your memories a bit. You know we have come from a very long recess. Last year, we published the County Additional Allocations Bill for Financial Year 2024/2025. The Bill went to the Senate and they included the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund. (RMLF) money in it. We were to go into mediation but unfortunately the mediation process lapsed at the end of the last session. We republished the Bill without the RMLF money and it has been read the First Time. We will process it without RMLF, because that is the right thing to do. It is good time to speak to our colleagues in the other House. I had an engagement with two governors. Let me not mention their names here. One of them told me that their county has funding of about Ksh1.1 billion from the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP). They cannot access the money because other governors want to fight over RMLF. They were telling me they would get only Ksh113 million for RMLF. The governor asked me what sense there is to fight over Ksh113 million and lose money that should go to the most critical elements like healthcare, water provision, and improvement of urban roads that would help the county to generate additional revenue. There are a few governors who cling on to the RMLF issue. When we were debating this Bill last year, we reminded governors that back in 2021 when we had the same stalemate, the national Government added a whooping Ksh53 billion to the Division of Revenue Bill to cater for county roads. Ask Kenyans anywhere in this country where they see governors constructing roads."
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"content": "Nowhere!"
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"content": " I am not asking Members of Parliament; I am asking Kenyans. They can tell us which governors are constructing any roads anywhere. If anything, the roads are maintained by KeRRA and then governors duplicate the same projects so that they loot from public coffers. We must call out this corruption for what it is. It is nothing other than blatant corruption in the counties. Governors are not fighting for this money because they intend to maintain any road. In my constituency, there is no single road that the County Government of Kiambu has maintained in the last three years. None. If you speak to constituents around the country, they will tell you the same. Read the Controller of Budget reports and see how many counties devote 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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"content": "money to development. Many are busy devoting money to freebies, and things that are politically expedient and exciting to the masses but not to sustainable things. Members of Parliament, through proper oversight of RMLF, ensure that KeRRA and KURA maintain roads in our counties and constituencies. We have pleaded with the Executive, through the Office of the Deputy President who is the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Budget Economic Council (IBEC), to call the Council of Governors to order. First, they should withdraw the case that is in court. There is absolutely no reason why Ksh10 billion would be lying idle at a time when we are about to get into the short rains and Kenyans will start complaining about bad roads. They will not access their farms and get farm produce to markets because governors are holding money through a court process. We have asked the Deputy President, through IBEC, to speak to the Council of Governors to first withdraw that case. As a House, we will process the County Additional Allocations Bill without the RMLF. It will never come to the Floor of this House. Let me not talk about courts. RMLF is a live wire that you will never touch on the Floor of this House."
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"content": "We will consult with the leadership in the Senate, so that no Senator even imagines they can amend that Bill when it goes to them to re-introduce RMLF. This will end up in another stalemate and a mediation process that we can tell them, even before it starts, will go nowhere. Leave RMLF! Let KeRRA and KURA maintain the roads they maintain. Hon. Speaker, lastly, I will speak to the Executive, the Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works and the Council of Governors. It is high time we properly reclassified all our roads. I saw this in some countries. If you go to South Africa, you will see a road marked with numerals and alphanumeric coding that clearly tell members of the public that this is a county road, municipal road, or a national Government road. We must get to that level where the Ministry of Roads, Transport and Public Works does proper classification of roads."
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