Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to second the Report. I will start with Kitui Report on the Kibwezi-Athi-Mutomo-Kitui- view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Migwani Road. As a Committee, we have had two visits, as the Chairperson has mentioned, to familiarize ourselves with the works ongoing on that major road. From the outset, I want to state categorically that the recommendations made by the Committee are not based on deskwork or just engagements with the persons affected by the project, but they have a basis in the law and the Constitution. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: On the matter of compensation for persons affected by the project, the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya is very clear in Article 40 on what happens if the Government wants to acquire private land for public use. Upon acquisition of a private land for public use, the Government is required to undertake prompt and full compensatinion of the persons whose property has been taken. It should be prompt, adequate and full. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: As the Senator for Kitui County, even as I second this Report, I must also bring the attention of the House to the fact that, that road has now progressed with over 100 kilometres tarmacked and already in use. However, it must go on record that today, there is no single person that has received a single cent in compensation. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: I say this with pain because at Athi Town, the town where the project starts on Kitui side, when the Committee visited that region accompanied by the contractor and the client who is the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), the local community and the residents of Athi Town made very reasonable requests for the construction of just a bus terminus along the road. To date, that has not been done. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Land and property worth hundreds of millions of shillings belonging to the people of Kitui along the project line has been taken and destroyed. I can just give an example of the towns that have been reduced to less than half of what used to exist before the project and yet there is no compensation that has been effected. We have Athi, Ikutha, Mutomo, Kyatuni, Ikanga, Makele, Mosa, Kisase, Kyuluni, Wikililye, Kitui Town itself and now they are in my local town called Kabati. There must be a way of getting the Government to fully compensate the people of that ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: On the issue of compensation for cracked buildings occasioned by blasting and other activities around the project, it was a shame for the Committee to receive presentations by persons who have been affected telling us that they are being given Kshs500, Kshs800 or I think the highest amount was around Kshs5,000 per household to repair houses that were clearly and extensively damaged. That is a function of the contractor and not the work of the KeNHA. If you ask the contractor, they will tell you that the repair for those cracks would not take more than one bag of cement, ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: The Chairperson was talking about the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). There were these tacky projects where the contractor has authority to design, look for finances and construct the road, it is a model we need to investigate. In it, there is no provision for CSR. It means the contractor will come on site, undertake their project and decide whether to do any CSR project or not. Madam Temporary Speaker, it was absurd when we asked the contractor to give us a report on what activities he has carried out as part of CSR. In the list, you find absurd statements ... view