- The contract requires the Transport ministry to finalise the development of a Cabinet Memo for the troubled Kenya Airways Turn Around Strategy by June next year.
- The performance target requires the digitisation of at least 25 per cent of the ministry's services.
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Transport and Roads Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has some of the highest performance targets spelled out by President William Ruto to his cabinet.
Details of his one-year performance contract he signed at State House on Wednesday show that will be required to absorb the Sh5 billion allocated to development and recurrent programmes.
The contract requires the Transport ministry to finalise the development of a Cabinet Memo for the troubled Kenya Airways Turn Around Strategy by June next year.
"The purpose of this Performance Contract is to establish the basis for ensuring that efficient and effective services are delivered to Kenyans inline with the provisions of the Constitution," reads the preamble of the contract the CS signed.
By appending his signature, Murkomen committed to overseeing the maintenance of 45,600km of roads and the construction of 86km of new high traffic roads.
He also pledged to upgrade 26km of the said roads in a decongestion plan where 12km will be rehabilitated.
His ministry will also oversee 50km worth of construction works on the Lamu-Ijara -Garissa road as part of the Lamu Port, South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor.
The ministry will is also be obligated to absorb the entire sum of funds mobilised from the World Bank, amounting to Sh2.47 billion.
The Roads Department will get Sh2.2 billion of the amount, meant for the Horn of Africa Gateway Development Project, with some Sh27 million going to the Transport Department for the same project.
Further, Murkomen was tasked to ensure that his ministry would generate Sh1.2 billion as appropriation in aid, or revenue from its operations.
"By signing the performance contract, the Transport CS also tied himself to a Sh76.3 million ceiling on pending bills in the 2023/24 financial year, an amount that translates to one per cent of the ministry's total Sh7.63 billion budget,'' reads part of Murkomen's contract.
In April, Murkomen said his ministry owed contractors Sh145 billion for projects already done.
"The ministry will accelerate the adoption of ICT solutions for ease of access fast, cost-effective, convenient, efficiency in service delivery,"the contract adds.
The performance target requires the digitisation of at least 25 per cent of the ministry's services.
Other obligations Murkomen will be required to fulfill include over-seeing 60 per cent of the Port Charter Stakeholders' biannual meetings and writing the reports, as well as implementing 40 per cent of the recommendations.
The obligations also include progressing the Dongo Kundu Bypass works from the current 55 per cent to 90 per cent by overseeing the construction of the Mwache-Tsunza-Metza road project and improving port services.
The Transport Ministry will also be required to implement a citizens'service delivery charter as well as resolve complaints issued by the Ombudsperson's office.
By June 30 next year, the ministry is required to negotiate and conclude bilateral air services agreements with the Maldives and the Philippines.
It will also review the stated agreements with Mauritius, France, Somalia, Guinea Conakry, Djibouti and South Sudan.