Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to respond as follows- Outstanding works remain on the project for the upgrading to bitumen standards and performance-based routine maintenance of the Kijiauri-Nyansiongo-Raitigo- Metamaywa Road. The contractor, China Far East Construction Group Limited, withdrew from the site due to severe financial distress from the significant amount owed by him, amounting to Kshs856,981,424. I am cognizant of the fact that the outstanding works are critical for the safe usage of the road and constitute the installation of tertiary road features such as road furniture, speed bumps, road markings and signage. It is noteworthy ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: This has become also a problem for us at the road safety site. The questions Kenya is asking, and then again using this answer, it is across the country. All the roads which are pending are partially done. The sequencing of how to construct these roads requires that you finish first before you start road furniture and markings. The people of Kenya are suffering because there are no bumps and markings in the areas that they are asking. This has been occasioned by the contractor not being on site, therefore, the work has not been finished. It is double jeopardy ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: The Ministry is pursuing funding options in consultation with the National Treasury to find viable financial solutions to pay a significant portion of the outstanding payment for this and other similar stalled projects to facilitate the completion of outstanding works. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. At least I did an earlier introduction about the general status of the funding across the country. The thing I would suggest is that maybe we can plan for safety activities just within the available budget. We will see if we can take care of bumps and the markings, even if it is just signage to say ‘approach slowly.’ view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason you cannot put the markings is perhaps unless they have finished to the required standards. If you put the marking, you will have to remove again and do it. Based on the experience of this problem across the country, I have been asking the engineers whether we can reverse the decision on how roads are completed. We can do this in such a way that every milestone is complete-complete. That means if you have 10 kilometers and a milestone is one kilometer at a given period, you do the one kilometer up to the ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: However, the people of Kenya have told us that, yes, we want the roads and, yes, you can get the money, but not at transferring up the cost of the pump by Kshs7. The cost of living is up because fuel creates a problem across the sector. We will sit because we completed the public participation last Monday and then we will go and sit together with the State Department for Petroleum to see if there is a way some other levies can be foregone or do something else. This is so that we concentrate first on raising money for ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will be brief so that I save time. This question is important, but it also touches on the other question on Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). Restoration of roads affected by floods is actually maintenance. I had already explained that we are unable to do so because the RMLF is running low or short of resources. In my earlier response to Sen. Omogeni, I stated that if we make a case and succeed to get some enhanced resources, we will deal with mitigation of floods that affect our roads. The assessment we did after the ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, I may not meet the expectations of the Senior Counsel and hon. Senator because the Government of Kenya holds a significant stake in KQ. That is approximately 48.9 per cent of the shares. The Government of Kenya is represented on the Board of KQ through the National Treasury and the Ministry of Roads and Transport. However, operational matters, including those related to protection and welfare of staff, are primarily the responsibility of the KQ itself. These operational issues are typically addressed and managed by the management and leadership of KQ. The KQ is not really ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to respond as follows- The allocation of funds to counties is defined by the provisions of the Kenya Roads Act, 2007, where 22 per cent of the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) is allocated for the maintenance of constituency roads and the 10 per cent for the maintenance of link roads between constituencies. These allocations are shared equally across all the 290 constituencies in the 47 counties, with variations only resounding from the number of constituencies per county. Consequently, the funds disbursed to counties in the period in question constituted a second tranche of ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Due to the limited budget ceiling available to the State Department of Roads, KeRRA is unable to allocate funds to all critical areas. Allocated funds should be enough to address the particular challenge and realize value for money as a thin spread of funds would result in ineffective allocation with little to show from the spread. The procurement of road works in KeRRA adheres to the Public Procurement and Asset Disposals Act (PPDA), 2015 as amended in 2022, including the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (PPDA) Regulations of 2020. Key controls in line with the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, ... view