Esther Murugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not remember seeing you. But, anyway, it is okay. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: No wonder! Okay. I have indicated some of the measures we have taken. The project is now almost on course. We have been allowed by the World Bank to start paying the various bills that were outstanding. I hope that in the next two weeks, we will go back on board and finish. I think that is a good summary. But I can also table the document so that people can have a look at it. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have actually written to the Treasury to say that they can forward our letter and whatever we have done with the world bank, and we are waiting for the Treasury to respond. I hope that in a fortnight, they will be able to do that. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as far as I am concerned, yes. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, their services were terminated and they are under investigations by KACC. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the last one, regarding the people whose services were terminated, I doubt whether we will be willing to recruit them again, if they were accused of malpractices or fraud. On the issue of restarting the projects, we are discussing the matter with the World Bank, so that for those projects which we need to restart, maybe, they can upscale the funding, so that we can restart them. However, the last inspection I conducted on these projects showed that most of them could still be rehabilitated. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the project that is indicated as “HQ” is actually the project in Trans Nzoia, because it was managed from the Head Office in Nairobi. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is actually in the action plan. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was asked to make a Ministerial Statement on the issue of resettlement of the displaced persons of Kenya. Hon. Martha Karua and hon. Odhiambo-Mabona raised some issues, which I hope to address. First of all, I will give a brief overview, just to refresh hon. Members’ memory about Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: A Cabinet decision was made to resettle IDPs comprising of people who formed 20 self-help groups. Those self-help groups comprising of 6,978 households purchased small parcels of land measuring 342 acres in various parts of the country, and settled in 20 tented camps, mostly in Nyandarua, Nakuru and Uasin Gishu Counties. On realising the deplorable conditions in which those IDPs were living, the Government started a resettlement programme to improve their livelihoods. That involved provision of two- and-a-quarter acres of arable land and a two-bedroom basic house per family. The resettlement villages were to be provided with social amenities such ... view