Charles Keter

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank the Minister for giving a candid answer which shows that her Ministry has not done their work properly. It has taken them long to help these poor women of Kuresoi. Could I know the reasons that have occasioned the delay? view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Minister has a honest face, therefore, I will take her answer. view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) There are no companies that have been licensed to exploit wind energy in northern Kenya, neither is the land divided into blocks for exploitation. (b) There are no agreements because there are no licensed companies. November 4, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3227 (c) The Government has liberalised the generation of electric power energy. Those investors intending to exploit various sources of energy, including wind energy in northern Kenya, will be expected to source and acquire suitable sites through appropriate negotiations and agreements with local communities or private individuals who own land. The ... view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, the Ministry has developed data concerning where we can generate energy through wind. Marsabit and most parts of the Coast Province are high potential areas and, already, there are private investors who have come in. Already, there are some investors who have gone to Turkana and Ngong Hills. They are developing about 300 to 350-megawatt stations. KenGen is developing one at Ngong which can produce 500 megawatts. So, Marsabit is a high potential area in terms of the speed of the wind. In our data, it is a very strong area. It ... view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have only talked about wind energy. In our plan, we have also developed data for the biomass and small hydros. What we have done in the Ministry is to package all the data. We have opened it up for private investors so that we can move with speed to harness the renewable sources of energy. We have made it easier for the investors. We have provided data on how much the Ministry is going to pay you, for example, if you develop biomass, a small hydro or wind energy plant of between zero to 50 ... view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I understood his question very well. I said that as a Ministry, we have highlighted those areas where you can develop energy, be it geothermal or otherwise. There are areas which we have earmarked, so that private investors cannot just go to an area and say that they want to drill a hole and develop geothermal power. We have sites earmarked 3228 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 4, 2008 by the Ministry, and whenever a private investor comes to the Ministry--- We have even posted them on our website and the only thing one does is to chose ... view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is acquisition of way leaves--- Before a contractor is even awarded a contract, the first thing he has to do is to acquire the way leaves. The affected people are supposed to sign them and compensation starts from that point, so that the affected people are paid their money before the construction is over view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before we give a licence, the first step is for those companies to negotiate with the individual communities through their local authorities and have an agreement under which they can be in a joint venture; they can agree that when the project is fully operational, whatever proceeds will accrue will assist the community. Alternatively, they can agree on a purchase agreement of the site through the local communities. Immediately they do that, they provide us with the necessary information, so that we can provide them with the necessary requirements to proceed. view
• 29 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Every Monday, we in the Ministry of Energy receive a tentative programme for the whole week, which shows that we have Questions to answer in the House. Apparently, some of us have a lot of Questions pending in our offices. When we come here to answer them, we are very surprised to find that they are not on the Order Paper. This is caused by the deferment of Questions. Could you kindly make a ruling to the effect that when you defer Questions, they appear below the others in the Order ... view
• 29 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as much as I agree with you, it is Parliament which generates the order of Questions on the Order Paper. Even if we are going to have a retreat, it will not sort out anything. The Clerk of the National Assembly should be directed not to be tampering with the Order Paper for the whole week. view