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"content": "(a) Why does the Kenyan National Highways Authority (KeNHA) use privately-owned motor vehicles for patrol on highways? (b) Who owns these patrol vehicles and how are their services procured? (c) What plans does KeNHA have to acquire its own patrol vehicles like other state corporations?"
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"content": " Hon. Cabinet Secretary, you may proceed to respond."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Hon. Members of Senate, I am happy to be here this morning to respond to the various questions. Let me respond to the Question by the Senator for Tharaka-Nithi, Sen. Mwenda."
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"content": " Hon. Cabinet Secretary, you are responding to Question No.69 by the Senator for Murang’a County."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the person who has my papers has been locked outside. Sorry about that, Sen. Joe Nyutu, Senator for Murang’a County. I will go straightaway to the answer on the question on KeNHA and why they use privately-owned vehicles for patrol on highways, who owns these patrol vehicles and what plans the KeNHA has to acquire its own patrol vehicles like other state corporations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to respond as follows- (a) The KeNHA utilizes privately-owned motor vehicles as it outsources road maintenance work through performance-based contracts. Under these contracts, particularly on critical roads such as Thika Super Highway Road and the Nairobi Southern Bypass, the scope includes regular road patrols to monitor compliance with traffic regulations, rapid response to include incidences and breakdowns, protection of road infrastructure, including street lighting and guardrails and immediate assistance on motorists in distress. The arrangement ensures efficient maintenance while enhancing overall road safety. (b) On the patrol vehicles that are owned, they are owned by performance-based contractors who are assigned the performance-based contracts in terms of maintenance contractors which are competitively procured in compliance with the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal (PPAD) Act, 2015 through the open tender method. (c) The KeNHA does not intend to procure its own patrol vehicles for maintenance work as it considers the maintenance-based contract arrangements a more suitable approach. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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"content": " Any supplementary questions, hon. Nyutu."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have listened and gone through the response by the Cabinet Secretary. Just to seek clarity from him, it is not clear from the response why KeNHA outsources its road maintenance services. Why would KenNHA officers use privately-owned motor vehicles to patrol? This is not road maintenance? Was there any cost-benefit analysis done before this particular decision was made because the Government needs to save resources. Are we saving by using privately- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "owned motor vehicles? My understanding is that there is a difference between road maintenance and patrol. The question was about the patrol vehicles. You will realize that sometimes motorists do not even know who is stopping them because these are privately-owned motor vehicles. I believe we need to seek clarity on that. That is the only question that I have because it also touches on your response on No.69(c) because we need to know the cost-benefit analysis. Has it shown that we are better off and we will save state resources through privately-owned motor vehicles and not motor vehicles owned by the corporation?"
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"content": " Proceed, Hon. Cabinet Secretary."
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me offer some explanation. Concerning periodic-based contracts maintenance, there is clarity that we tender for maintenance of a particular road for a period of one or two years. Therefore, a contractor who wins a tender to maintain that road through a competitive process works like any other private contractor constructing any road out there and they use their assets to maintain the road."
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