Hon. Franklin Bett

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: (c) My Ministry will consider allocating funds to repair this road as may be prioritized by the Wajir South Constituency Roads Committee in their work plan. This is a Class E Road and it is within the purview of the Constituency Roads Committee. view
• 16 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, yes, I have done exactly what I was asked to do; that is to table the list. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply and, in doing so, I wish to apologise to the House for the inadequate answer that was given previously. (a) I am aware that the tenders for upgrading of Makutano-Kithimani Road (C100) were invited, but were cancelled due to non-availability of funds. (b) Currently, there are no funds for upgrading the roads to bitumen standard, but the design works were completed in 2006. However, there is a budgetary allocation of Kshs65,038,020 for maintenance of the road during this financial year. I have also directed that the procurement of that maintenance work begins immediately, ... view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not aware that the people of Mwala were duped because it is an election year, but I am only saying that there was a budgetary shortfall which caused the construction works not to continue. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to indicate that I did not get the Member well because of movement from the Dispatch Box to the seat. I seek your indulgence if the Member can repeat the question while I am here at the Dispatch Box. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is a fair question which is being addressed through the new law which this House was gracious to pass recently, the Engineers Act and the National Construction Authority Act. Those two pieces of legislation will be used to make sure that the contractors do comply with the time limits, or the deadlines that have been set. Nevertheless, there are also challenges which are beyond the control of the contractors like the weather conditions and other situations affecting them from outside the country like inability to receive some of the inputs for road construction on time. However, ... view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree that the Public Procurement and Disposal Act requires that before a contract is awarded funds must be in place. I have not delved into that past as to be able to know what really happened, but I want to believe that other extraneous and emergency situations must have arisen, and must have caused reallocation of funds at that time. This would be excusable because an emergency has to be attended to ahead of other activities. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have stated that the contract was advertized, tendered; I have indicated that I have not delved into the past history, but I strongly believe, which I can confirm later, that there could have been some emergency that arose at that time and took away the funds which were meant for these works. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not mind asking for more time to go and dig into the past to be able to brief the House well on what happened then. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have indicated that we carried out a design study on that road, which was completed at a cost of Kshs19.2 million. That study is now ready and it is for us to source for funds from the Treasury. In the meantime, as I have indicated, we are set to maintain that road at a cost of Kshs55 million. view