David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Basically, we do a lot of mobilisation, but true as you have said, we have also encountered problems in public participation. Whenever we go for public partition, you find a crowd that does not know the reason of your going there. It is only the leaders who have knowledge. That has become a challenge and we will be looking at public participation from a different perspective so that if it is for a Bill then we would be required to improve on mobilisation. view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is just to tell my brother, Hon. Ichung’wah to read the Bill. The revenue share will go to the county and the sub-county. Nakuru Town East is not a sub-county. It was written Nakuru Town East but we went to Nakuru County Assembly which is situated in Nakuru Town West. That is where we went. view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Secondly, as to whether people know about the Bill, we went to these places and so many people gave us brilliant ideas. Maybe the people on the ground were mobilised by few people like the commissioners. You can see from the presentation that was given that the public knows and understands the contents of the Bill and most importantly the local content that is indicated under Section 234 of the two Bills. We decided to go where geothermal power is generated and that is Naivasha and Narok. In Nakuru, we went to the county assembly to get its views on ... view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As much as the Chief Whip of the Minority Party is contributing and as the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has indicated, it is right for him to have facts. It is not that the Government has been unable to complete the transmission line. We are tabling a Bill called the Land Value Index Laws that will address matters of compensation. The line is not complete because the community has refused to allow the contractor to proceed. So, it is important for the Chair to get the facts. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, let me say it is good to see you seated there because of the good work that you did in Laikipia County. I know you will do a better job as a member of the Chairperson’s Panel. I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: One of the issues that we need to look into in the Sessional Paper on the National Housing Policy is public participation. I hope Hon. Washiali is here. We keep on asking ourselves whether the sessional papers are subjected to public participation. That is the most crucial aspect of this. As we write these sessional papers, they need to be subjected to public participation so that people can give their input. We appreciate that the Government has taken this as one of the major four agendas in the coming five years. Unfortunately, there are issues that have been raised by ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: There is also a second thing which is important. I hope that the President set aside housing as a ministry on its own. It was placed under the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development. That Ministry is basically involved in matters to do with roads and other very important aspects. When you clamp two very important aspects in one ministry, it is not possible for them to give it a 100 per cent thought of what we anticipate. I wish that the President had made it a ministry on its own, with its CS, to handle housing matters. ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I do not want to deliberate on the cost of building in this country. It is important for the Government to start thinking on how it can formulate a policy where funds can be available at very cheap rates to the mwananchi . If you look at the current trend, some private investors are making major kills by building some housing units and then selling them at very unaffordable prices. At some point, you find so many people at the end of the day are unable to pay, and these houses are repossessed. The Minority Whip has said: “My house ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: The NHC should stop concentrating in Nairobi. It needs to move and come to other areas. Let us demystify this aspect of rural-urban migration. If we can build houses and create some jobs away from Nairobi, then we will be able to... They run to Nairobi and urban centres. We will present some petitions to the Committee to look into what the NHC has been doing. view