Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5341 to 5350 of 6175.

• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: The Ministry has been involved in several policy reforms and I will just highlight a few, having shared the details with the Committee and the rest, we will be happy to share with the House. I think the major one of concern is our railway system and hon. Members will recall that the joint concessioning of KR has been on since 2006. The issue I would like to share with the House is that the negotiations that have been ongoing with the restructuring and reorganization of the Rift Valley Railways consortium are yielding fruits and we hope to sign the ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On regional integration, the Government is keen on strengthening our regional integration through facilitation of the transport networks that are necessary. This is happening in several ways through the northern corridor. It is the corridor from Mombasa linking us to Uganda and beyond. There is also the planned corridor linking Lamu with Sudan. On this, there is a study already ongoing and we hope that over the next six years, we will have completed work along that corridor. view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: There is also, among the reforms and associated infrastructure, the intentions to develop a free port at Mombasa. It is now taking shape at Dongo Kundu and KPA plans to not only develop that, but a free trade zone at the Port of Mombasa through a public private partnership, details of which we are going to share as and when they become clearer. Let me also inform this House that the Government policy is to eventually transform the Port of Mombasa into a landlord port with KPA basically becoming the landlord. We have developed strategic roadmaps to facilitate the realization ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry is also involved in the development of a rapid bus transport system. There is already a consultant on the ground looking at this and part of the monies we will be asking for is to facilitate that. That is something that we will be working together with the other Ministries of Local Government, Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development and stakeholders in that industry. Associated with this is also a light train system for passengers, with the first arm of that being a track from the City Centre to Embakasi Airport, which we hope ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Within the ongoing projects and programmes some of which will be in the financing, is our ongoing road safety campaign. I was privileged yesterday to have started some very innovative road safety campaign in conjunction with one of the fuel suppliers and resallers in the country. We will continue engaging the private sector and, other stakeholders not just in the multimedia public awareness campaigns but also in the actual enforcement of all those regulations. I do hope that by the time they crack down bites, I will have the support of this House in terms of ensuring that we have ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at this point, allow me to thank various donors who funded some our projects. We have external receipts of Kshs5.4 billion in the form of loans and grants of Kshs244 million to support the Northern Corridor Transport Improvement Project. This is a project with funding through the International Development Assistance (IDA) of the World Bank and East Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Project, with IDA which aims at security systems at the port as well as rehabilitation of assets and relocation plan of some of the people who are settled a long the railway line. ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: We have Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) listed of Kshs2.3 billion within the Recurrent Vote. That will be realized through mainly aeronautical charges by the Civil Aviation of Kshs2.2 billion; a small grant by the United States Government of Kshs60 million for maintenance of airstrips and aerodromes as well as sale of goods stores expected to realize Kshs2 million. Again, within the Development Vote, the Ministry will receive A-in-A amounting to Kshs3.8 billion, which includes Kshs2.1 billion from the IDA and Kshs1.7 billion from the Government of Japan, plus Kshs12 million from ADF. As I mentioned, the A-in-A collected from the Civil Aviation ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Ministry of Transport, let me once again thank the World Bank, Government of Japan, and African Development Fund for the financial support they have availed to the Ministry totalling Kshs5.6 billion. I also want to confirm to each one of those donors that the money will be properly utilized on the projects and programmes already prioritized in this Budget. view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude this statement, I wish to reiterate that the monies that will be availed to my Ministry will be expended on the activities, projects and programmes that are intended in line with the Medium Term Expenditure Framework guidelines and Government financial and procurement regulations in order to realize the objectives of the Kenya Vision 2030 in the transport sector. Once again, I wish to thank this House for the support it has continuously given to this Ministry. As we move into the more challenging issues of bringing semblance of normalcy on roads sector, ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to Move and ask hon. Eng. M.M. Mahamud to second. view