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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all the other details are captured in the Budget document. But may I mention here that we have set aside funds for projects like Wajir Airport. It will be opened officially in the next few days. We have set aside funds for the purchase of ferries, the dredging of the Port of Mombasa, modernizing facilities and equipment to improve meteorological services and maintenance of aerodromes and airstrips. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are doing a lot under the Northern Corridor Transport Improvement Project. We are involved in capacity building at the Ministry of Transport and Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. We are also involved in the ongoing expansion of the airport in Nairobi. We are also participating actively in the East African Trade and Transport Facilitation Project which will cover integrated security systems and community-based systems at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), access to pension schemes and Kibera Relocation Plan following the concessioning of the Kenya Railways, the establishment of a transport data centre at the Ministry's Headquarters, which is also included. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the current financial year, the Ministry of Transport is expected to collect Kshs1,977,000,000 in the form of Appropriations-in-Aid under the Recurrent Vote. In the Development Vote, the Ministry will receive a loan through Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) amounting to Kshs1,470,676,000. In conclusion, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to reiterate that the monies availed to my Ministry will be expended on the activities, projects and programmes intended, in line with the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework guidelines and the Government Financial and Procurement Regulations, in order to realise the objectives of the Kenya's Vision 2030 in the transport sector. I also want to emphasize here that the Ministry of Transport works very closely with other Ministries because a lot of its activities depend on the successful achievements of other Ministries, particularly, the Ministry of Roads and Public Works, the Office of the President and, to a certain extent also, all other Ministries in general. I am therefore, most honoured to request the House to give the Ministry's Vote full support, so that we may operate effectively, efficiently and to meet the aspirations of Kenyans in the Financial Year, 2007/2008. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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