Charity Ngilu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 671 to 680 of 806.

• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that I said I do not know the exact point. This is what I am going to check and actually find out whether that is where we were supposed to do the drilling of water. About the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation not having the capacity, as I have said that is the implementing arm of all the Water Service Boards. They can also out-source whereby they can tender and get somebody to do the work for them. They do not have to do everything for themselves. About the old rigs, yes, ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Kioni requested for a Ministerial Statement on the staff changes that we have made in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. I wish to read the Statement. I changed the membership of the Water Services Regulatory Board, which is under my Ministry, for the following reasons:- (i) Incompetence and mismanagement of financial resources allocated to the Board on recommendations made by the Inspector-General of State Corporations on June, 2008. I have a copy of this report. Any hon. Member who would like to look at it, can do so. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: (ii) Serious weaknesses and omissions in corporate governance that have manisfested themselves in the Board for a period of close to five years. There were persistent problems, wrangles and feuds between members of the Board and the management. (iii) Inability to prepare and present a performance contract for the year 2008/2009. (iv) Uncontrolled expenditure on Board allowances that exhausted the Budget six months before the end of the Financial Year, rendering it unoperrational. (v) Persistent interference of the management by the Board as evidenced by high turn-over of the Chief Executive Officers. We have had five Chief Executive Officers in ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Yes, it is but I have got to give their names and qualifications because that is what the hon. Members wanted. This is to show that they are very qualified because they were saying they are not qualified. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is long. So, do I go on or do I table it? view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will table it here but I want the hon. Members to know that the people we posted in these places are very, very qualified. I want to also say that this exercise is not over. As long as people are not delivering in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, there will certainly be change. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that, that officer has been removed from one board but as a result of what has been happening with the Water Services Regulartory Board. The Board has not been functioning. She is not the only one. The Board has changed five CEOs in five years. So, she was just a victim of a bad Board which we changed. I want to share again with the House that this Water Services Trust Fund which is a grant and not a loan from the Government has surplus money and unless we engage people who can ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, I have started the process of recruiting new CEOs. The Board will do recruitment. They will advertise, interview and present to me those who need to be hired. Once I have those names, I will hire them. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member needs to understand that, that position that we have given to Eng. Gakubia is the most senior one in the whole Board. However, two wrongs do not make a right. The reason why I did this is that there has been some irregularity before where some very qualified officers within a higher grade than some of them had been given jobs at lower grades than others. So, I tried to regularise this peacefully within the Ministry. Finally the hon. Member also said that he has a letter that is written to the PS ... view
• 31 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. First of all, I wish to inform the hon. Member that there is no river called Malaba. However, there is a river called Malakisi. That river actually does not flood the Teso area. It pours its water just before it gets into Uganda. Therefore, this Question needs to be looked into again because there are no floods in that area. view