Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 181 to 186 of 186.

• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I want to focus our attention on the fact that this Bill has been introduced to specifically deal with the issue of transport. As a Member of Parliament from the rural areas - as my good friend, Hon. Kajwang’ said - I spend a lot of time in Nairobi. I am very interested in how the transport system of Nairobi works. When I listened to my colleagues who opposed this Bill, I felt as if we are looking at the Bill beyond the scope of what we have in front of us. I read this Bill as the Nairobi Metropolitan ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: When we talk about the amount of money that we will incur to staff the authority, we are forgetting about the amount of money we lose or spend every day as an economy in traffic jams. We also need to realise that Nairobi is different from nearly every other county that we have in the country in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and population. When we speak of setting up a transport authority specifically for the Nairobi metropolitan area, we have to remember that the surrounding counties feed a lot of traffic into and out of Nairobi. If we ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I also want to re-emphasise the issue of cost. There are a lot of costs which we are not factored in. I talked about the number of hours students and even us spend in traffic. Any time I come to work in the morning, I meet school buses at 6.30 a.m. picking children who are supposed to be in class at 8.00 a.m. Part of that problem is transport. So, when we think about streamlining transport facilities in the Nairobi metropolitan area, let us not only think about ourselves, but also about the social and economic aspects of what we ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 7 Nov 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No. 43, I wish to make a Statement regarding the sad demise of the late Governor of Nyeri County, Hon. Dr. Wahome Gakuru today Tuesday, 7th November 2017 at the Thika Level 5 Hospital after a tragic road accident. The late Governor Gakuru was an accomplished scholar; being a holder of Doctorate in Public Administration and Policy from Arizona State University, two masters’ degrees in Business Administration, MBA from Willamette University in the United States of America and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration Degree from the University of Nairobi before successfully contesting ... view