Charity Ngilu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can confirm here that all the areas that the Member has mentioned are part of the design of this project. I can also confirm that since the Masinga-Kitui Pipeline was done way back in 1995, it did not take into account these areas. That is why we have these funds at the moment and we are going to ensure that these people get water. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Nzangathi, Nzambani and Thua can be served by the Masinga-Kitui Water Project because the water will be adequate to do so. However, it is not part of the design. We have not set aside money to do this at the moment, but it can be done later on. We also have another project, namely, Umaa Dam that can serve those areas. Once the Umaa Dam is completed, all these people will get water. view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first and foremost, the commitment that every Kenyan was going to have clean piped water by 2000 was of the Government then, which let Kenyans down very badly. This Government has something called Vision 2030 and I am hoping it is this Vision that is going to provide water to Kenyans without having to ask for it. I believe we are on course as long as we avoid siasa mbaya because we know that siasa mbaya, maisha mbaya . This afternoon, I am a very unhappy person because of what I saw going on in our neighbouring ... view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance requesting for more resources to ensure that we get plastic and collapsible tanks. We have requested that we get a budget where we can involve the communities and the business people who have got lorries to ensure that they take water closer to the people, first and foremost, and maybe even to their livestock. However, I do not have money right now for this. I think I will have to, once again, write to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and ... view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not think we use the word “nomads” anymore. They are pastoralists. However, part of the design of this project is to ensure that water goes through all those ranches that he has talked about, to the universities that are in his constituency, that is, SEUKO and Kenyatta University constituent colleges. So, I am sure that they will get water as it goes to those places. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not ask the Member to ask the Question on behalf of my constituency. However, I beg to reply. (a) My Ministry has undertaken water projects in Wajir South, Kitui Central and Turkana Central from 2008 to date as contained in annexes A1, A2 and A3, which are attached. (b) My Ministry is putting the following measures to mitigate against the current drought in the vast Wajir South Constituency:- (i) We have issued two new water bowsers to the district for water trucking and there is an old one that is still being used. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that I did not indicate the years because he did not ask about that. He asked about 2008 to date. That is what I looked at. I did not look at what point some of these projects were designed. However, the Member has talked about Kshs683 million that we have put in Kitui Central Constituency, if he can check on page four number six, he will see that there is construction of a dam for Kitui District, which is going to serve four constituencies. Kitui is a county headquarters. The cost of this dam ... view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that sometimes geological surveys show that there is water underground and when they drill, they find that there is no water. That happens especially in the northern part of the country. Therefore, that is not unusual. On the issue of the water bowser, we are going to increase water bowsers because this view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have already put that programme in place. In actual fact, we have been disbursing funds to the constituencies that are drought-stricken. We have also purchased collapsible tanks, including other tanks, so that the resources that we send out to the people can be used. The equipment can be used by the lorries to take water to where the people are. I had an occasion early this month to go to Turkana Central. I really think that we need to do much more as the Government to serve these people. I could not understand how people in ... view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the design of this dam was done way back in 1988. That was long before I became a Member of Parliament. It was never implemented until 2006 when the dam was re-designed. In 2008 we took these designs. In 1988, the cost was only Kshs200 million but today the cost is Kshs824 million. The contractor came up with an appraisal figure of Kshs652 million. That is in the Committee’s Report that was tabled in this House a week ago. This is what has made this project stall even though we have already paid Kshs575 million and 67 ... view