Aden Sugow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to contribute to this Vote for my Ministry by highlighting a few issues. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you know, water is life. I hope I will not bore you by giving a short story about the bushmen of Kalahari to illustrate this fact. As we all know, there is scarcity of water there. In order to get water, the bushmen normally look around for apes or monkeys. The monkeys keep their water reservoirs secretly somewhere in the caves in the desert. They always make sure that the bushmen do not ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The communities residing in Bungale and Marafa locations in Magarini Constituency presented to my Ministry, a Kshs14.71 million proposal for construction of Bungale Water Project Phase I in the year 2002. My Ministry integrated the proposed water project into the larger Water Supply Master Plan aimed at alleviating the water scarcity in Marafa and Magarini divisions. The implementation of this Master Plan commenced in the year 2005 and over Kshs33 million has been spent on construction of various components of Bungale Water Project Phase 1. In the current Financial Year 2007/2008, a ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the works undertaken from the year 2005 include the following: (i) Construction of a 500 metre cubed reinforced concrete storage tank at Kshs8.5 million. (ii) Construction of a six-kilometre main pipeline comprising of a 200-millimetre diameter EPDC and steel pipes including auxiliary works and two kilometres of 50-millimetre diameter service line and drilling of a borehole on the bank of Sabaki River at Kshs18 million. (iii) Construction of power lines to the borehole at Kshs6.5 million totalling Kshs33 million. Currently, preparations for the testing of the pipeline and storage tanks for defects are being undertaken and ... view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, master plans are being supported with implementation. If the hon. Member had listened, I said that we have been allocating money every July 25, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3 year since the time that this implementation started and even this year depending on what is available to the Ministry. This project was being allocated money. For every area where there is such a plan, the Ministry is doing the same thing; implementations is going on. view
• 25 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry's plans for implementation of programmes are based on availability of funds. With regard to the promise by the President, that will be considered in a special way because currently, the plan is not within the budget of the Ministry. view
• 12 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. I would like to congratulate the Minister for bringing it here, and for doing a good job, amidst a lot of blames here and there in the country, as far as security is concerned. A lot of debate has taken place in this House, today, with regard to our police officers. I would like to congratulate the Minister for planning to increase the number of police officers. I feel what we need to do here, today, is to concentrate more on quality rather than ... view
• 11 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Busia Water Supply will be upgraded under the ongoing Nzoia Cluster Water and Sanitation Programme. The programme is being undertaken by my Ministry through the Lake Victoria North Water Services Board, with funding assistance from the German Government through KFW. Detailed designs of the rehabilitation and administration works for Nzoia Cluster Phase II - Towns, which include Busia Town, is ongoing. My Ministry has, however, been undertaking rehabilitation works on that water supply to improve its service delivery. (b) My Ministry has allocated Kshs5 million for special water projects in ... view
• 11 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: (c) Water provision services in Busia Municipality, and the surrounding areas, has been placed under the management of the Western Water Services Company, which is licensed by the Lake Victoria North Water Services Board. The company is not district-based, and is mandated to provide water services in a given region comprising of many districts, Teso included. view
• 11 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of the old systems have, sort of, deteriorated. The Ministry is doing two major works. First, there is a study on augmentation and expansion of the water supply system covering all those districts under that Board. There is also rehabilitation that is ongoing in order to replace old piping systems in the old water supply system in order to rehabilitate areas that have already been destroyed. It is also meant to expand areas that already have networks. For the time being, what we need to wait for, and I assure the hon. Member is ... view
• 11 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member that it is not the policy of this Government to discriminate against any Kenyan in terms of provision of services. Where the hon. Member is specific with regard to people who have been deliberately disconnected, since the Ministry is not aware of it, I request him to give us further information. I undertake to carry out an investigation and take remedial action. view