18 Jul 2023 in Senate:
I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing regarding the release of retention money arising out of contracts for construction works in the northern frontier counties.
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18 Jul 2023 in Senate:
In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) provide details of contractors engaged by the County Governments of Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit, Isiolo, Turkana, Samburu and West Pokot to undertake
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18 Jul 2023 in Senate:
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18 Jul 2023 in Senate:
construction works and their respective amounts paid by them as retention money from the year 2017 to date; (2) indicate the status of the release of retention money by the County Governments’ respective contractor within the same period providing reasons for any releases that have not been effected; (3) state the total amount currently held by the County Governments as retention money explaining the reason for discrepancies, if any, between the amounts paid and released by the contractors and; (4) state measures put in place to ensure timely release of retention money to the contractors.
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27 Jun 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and the Senate Majority Leader. I support what the Senate Majority Leader has said. I visited the Office of the CoB recently and got a list of monies that were sent to my county. Based on that report, I went to Marsabit and checked on what has been paid against what has been done. Surprisingly, there are many projects that have not been finished while some have not even been started. I was in Marsabit three or four days ago. I went to a place called Kalacha. The dispensary there was only 30 per cent ...
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27 Jun 2023 in Senate:
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27 Jun 2023 in Senate:
Let me also congratulate our Majority Leader for bringing up the issue of 35 per cent and 65 per cent. In some counties especially in the northern region, you can find that the governors have put money as development that is being diverted to food relief supplies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in actual sense, if you look at the books, the books read development at even 35 to 40 per cent. However, the money has been transferred to food relief supplies. Some counties have used only eight to nine per cent on development. Nonetheless, even with that, most of those development ...
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27 Jun 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, very much Madam Temporary Speaker.
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27 Jun 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to thank Sen. Kavindu Muthama for bringing this Motion to this House. Sen. Osotsi said he was in school in 1998. When this happened, I was a businessman doing business in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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27 Jun 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. In a normal African proverb, we say that if two bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers. In an American proverb, they call us Africans. Some Muslims in the Middle East are called collateral damage. These are human lives being called collateral damage. What Sen. Kavindu Muthama is asking for is long overdue. It should have happened many years ago. It is the responsibility of the Kenyan Government to protect the lives and properties of Kenyans. It is enshrined in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. About 213 Kenyans and 12 Americans lost their lives. ...
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