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"content": "the rail. There is a schedule that he has given here. Apparently, the Government prefers spending a total of Kshs9.5 billion to do 13 kilometres of railway from Ngong to Riruta, as opposed to dualling Bomas to Kiserian, which is a total distance of almost 24 kilometres and at a cost of Kshs10.9 billion. The hon. Cabinet Secretary should explain to me as if I was a child. Honestly, if we wanted to decongest Nairobi, open up the city and reduce the pressure on land, we know we have more land in Kiserian than we have here in Nairobi. What is the rationale of spending Kshs9.5 billion to do 13 kilometres of railway and yet Kshs10.9 billion can be used to do 24 kilometres of a dual carriageway from Bomas to Kiserian? Madam Temporary Speaker, if he can answer those two questions and also touch on accusations and allegations that some powerful people along that route of the railway have somehow secured concessions from his Ministry to divert the original plan in order to avoid their properties. However, those who are not powerful enough, are not being heard at all by the Ministry."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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"content": " Cabinet Secretary, could you respond to those questions? 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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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I thank Sen. Sifuna for the compliments, which I do not take for granted. I am even going to work harder. I will now get down to the optimal. When you are dealing with a commuter rail, you can optimize because it is about the number of attachments which can be pulled by the engine. Therefore, you can start from as low as 1,200 and go to as high as you want, depending on the capacity. Depending on whether it is rush hour, you do not just do the attachments if the population is not there, but you can go to as far as 6,000, depending on the capacity of the engine to pull that weight. The point is that we will build Bomas-Kiserian because that is a new settlement and dual that road as a priority, but we can get to the details. Kiserian is where the people who work in this city live. It is a new settlement and an open area. If we are going to decongest the city in terms of new developments, then we are seeing serious development in that area. We would be impervious as leaders not to set priority dualling to that very congested narrow road to Kiserian. I would like to confirm that there are works in progress, the dualling to decongest the people trying to reside in the small spaces around the city. The Bomas-Kiserian is a must-do and an urgent project that we must undertake and because it is a supplementary question, I do not have the details, but I can tell you this is a priority road for dualling. However, leaders, should see the optimized pool from the commuter rail to the road, the"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": "and the congestion that we have, including the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), in order to do the intercity with that understanding. This is because our city was not planned with a railway or commuter railway, it is easy for us to have the commuter planned along the Nairobi Railway City. It is easy to go out of the city through a Nairobi commuter metropolitan system, which brings in a number of counties in Nairobi where our population reside in Ngong, Kiserian, Kikuyu, Kiambu all the way down to Murang’a. The governors sit in the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority decision-making process. I will just confirm to hon. Members that Bomas-Kiserian is a must-do. I can come with specific timelines because it is a critical corridor to decongest the city. Even as we thought that maybe this line is a least priority, in the latest developments, we must build a number of lines going eastward, northerly, southwest and so forth in order to bring people in and out of the city; either through the BRT and the Nairobi Commuter Rail System, in order to facilitate and remove the congestion that is currently choking the city. Madam Temporary Speaker, whereas it might be expensive to develop the commuter rail, if we see the capacity we can pull, depending on the number of units to transport up to 6,600 people and we do the economics, you will appreciate why we need both. The buses stop every so often and the train stations will be further apart. Considering the passion of Sen. Sifuna to understand what we are doing in Nairobi and the recent developments, which include the visit to the United Kingdom (UK) to see the King's Cross development and how the city can look like when you develop a dilapidated facility like the railway land which sits on about 438 acres; I would 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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"speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
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"content": "like to spend time with Sen. Sifuna, as the Senator for Nairobi, so that he can appreciate what we are doing to decongest the city, give new life through the development of those 438 acres sitting under the Kenya Railways and be able to move people in and out of the city quickly. We are doing this as a package. We do not want to just do the railway city, but we want to do the BRT lines; including the line that starts from Kenol and which stalled for a while; coming through Ruiru and all the way to the Nairobi Railway Station. There is also the line going to Kikuyu and Riruta. There are live plans, including my planned visit to UK next week. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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"content": " Thank you, hon. Cabinet Secretary. We have exhausted the time that was allocated by the Speaker. I will allow just one question because the time for that question has been exhausted, otherwise it will be difficult to complete the questions we have for the Cabinet Secretary today. I will give Sen. Okong’o Omogeni to ask one question and then we will call it a day on that question. You can still find another chance with the next question he answers. He is still on his feet."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, before I ask my question, I was wondering about the procedure that the Ministry follows as I looked at the documentation. This road he was speaking about was commissioned in 2023m but the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) license was issued on 19th September, 2024. Does it mean that the Ministry does not follow the laid-down compliance procedures before they commission projects? They should lead from the front. However, the question I wanted to ask the Minister is on road safety."
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"content": " Sen. Omogeni, which question do you want him to answer?"
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"content": "That is what I am asking. That was just an observation. Last week, we had a bad accident. I believe we neighbour each other. I am in Nyamira and you are in Bomet. In Nyansiongo, we had a very bad accident, where a truck that was traveling from Keroka, Metamaywa, down to Nyansiongo lost control and crashed into Nyansiongo Market. Eight people died on the spot. If you have data that is coming up after another accident happened again last year in October, we again lost four lives. On that stretch, coming downhill is a hill. From Sotik, Chebilat, down to Nyansiongo, you also go downhill. On both sides, you have not placed bumps to slow traffic. Before September, in April, another child at Kesebei Primary School was knocked down by a vehicle. Again, we raised these complaints. I had raised the same issue before your predecessor, Hon. Murkomen, but nothing has been done so far. How long does it take to just place bumps on the roads for purposes of ensuring that there is safety for the road users and the people who are using markets? Can we get any assurance from you that you will take note of these concerns and move with urgency and place bumps on that stretch of the road? 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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