Hon. Franklin Bett

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I withdraw and apologize. We placed a very beautiful notice on the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway to warn motorists not to over speed. If you went there, that beautiful signage has now been chopped and all of it taken away. That is the situation on all our roads everywhere in the Republic. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, even doing an earth or gravel road needs money. The money I have is not adequate. I want to thank this House because for the past two years, they have authorized the Treasury to release to us over Kshs70 billion for our roads. However, that is almost 20 per cent of what we have always requested for from the Exchequer to do our roads. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will not give an undertaking not to demolish structures on the road reserves. If structures are on the road, bona fide road reserves, they will have to be removed. My Ministry will, however, endavour to give notice to the illegal occupants of the road reserves. We will even go further to place crosses on all those structures which are on our road reserves. That is the better signal to the owner of the building when they see a marking of the Ministry of Roads on the wall or building or perimeter fence. So, I am sorry ... view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The length of Garissa-Modiak-Nuno Road is 23 kilometres long. Eleven kilometres of this section of the road was previously constructed to bitumen standard. The project was substantially completed in April 2009 and is now due for maintenance. The remaining 12-kilometre section between Modika and Nuno has been awarded for construction to bitumen standard and the contractor is mobilizing to start works. (b) A total length of 11 kilometres of the road has been tarmacked at a cost of Kshs748,214,113.60. (c) I wish to table the report as requested by the hon. Member. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, yes, when we were on that inspection tour with the Prime Minister, the hon. Member has rightly said so, the Prime Minister asked whether, indeed, that costing was right. We instituted an audit inspection and I want to report that I have tabled the audit report. The auditor’s reported that the costing was right. The reason was the haulage of the material was from far. The quarry material was not available on site; it was quite a distance. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, again, the fuel costs internationally have all jointly contributed to the high cost of that road. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, maintenance here means cleaning of drainage and culverts because of the enormous flow of sand either through water or wind. So, we are doing that! I also want to add that the earth works which were anticipated initially were lower than what was experienced actually. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the cost of construction of a road varies from one region to another. It also varies with regard to availability of materials to use on the road. It also varies from period to period. For example, the road which the hon. Member is referring to was constructed in 2005/2006. This one was done in 2009. So, there is also the time frame and the cost of material is all the time going up. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you are asking about the engineers’ estimates, it is the same figure. view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, to some extent, that is the reason. I will tell you that running the road from Isiolo to Merile is not the same cost as running the road from Turbi to Moyale. The road from Turbi to Moyale costs, on the engineers’ estimate, much more than if we go further because of availability of water and materials and the cost of the fuel used to transport the material as well as the availability of labour. view