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    "id": 74994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. This Question appeared sometime back and following your ruling, my Assistant Minister and the technical team from my Ministry visited Kambirwa Airstrip on 10th November, 2010. It was established that, indeed, the airstrip exists and that some works were undertaken at the airstrip in the 2004/2005 Financial Year in an attempt to gravel the airstrip by the them Ministry of Roads and Public Works at an estimated cost of Kshs555,000. The mandate for the rehabilitation of the airstrip was subsequently given to the Ministry of Transport in the Financial Year 2005/2006. (b) The Ministry does not have any immediate plans to construct the airstrip due to technical limitations. It was established during the visit that the current length of the airstrip land is 800 metres, which means that only 500 metres is available for runway length after providing for the minimum runway and safety areas. The development of the runway on the available land would, therefore, not be sufficient for safe operations. The Ministry is currently developing a policy on the development of airstrips in order to establish criteria to be utilized in identifying airstrips for maintenance and rehabilitation. Inspection of the 146 Government airstrips across the country is almost complete and the aim is to ascertain their conditions so as to enable proper budgeting for maintenance and rehabilitation. For the reasons stated above, Kambirwa Airstrip is not one of the 146 airstrips being studied because of the technical limitations I have just mentioned. Under the new constitutional dispensation, the Ministry considers that there will be need for, at least, one operational airstrip per county as a policy and will work accordingly."
}