Hon. Franklin Bett

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in our Budget, we also have the Kenya Youth Empowerment Programme, to which the World Bank has provided Kshs150 million in the current Budget; it is for the labour-based Kenya Youth Empowerment Programme. We will be releasing the format and the procedure for releasing and using these funds in the course of the year. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has allocated new projects and has taken on board new projects for the year. They are new projects in the sense that, the length of the road has been segmented into portions. So, one ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also put more money on the on- going projects which are major. On the on-going major projects, the Ministry will among others continue road works on the following projects whose gross allocation, I will read alongside the road: The Northern Corridor – Kshs14, 564,646,000. The Nairobi-Thika Road, we are going to be utilizing Kshs13.3 billion. On the East African trade facilitation, we are going to be spending Kshs750 million. That is to provide for the weighbridges and one-stop point on our border points. Isiolo-Merille is a road that we are about to conclude ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to continue with route 2000 which is popular in the countryside and we are putting Kshs3.14 billion. Following two road projects that the development partners have confirmed co-financing and they are likely to be taken on board in the course of the financial year, that is Garissa-Modogashe, we are heading to Wajir and hopefully onwards to Mandera. Then there is Timboroa into Eldoret. That will be concluding the road from Nakuru all the way to Malaba. I would like to say that Nairobi-Nakuru is already done. That was the only missing link between ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are critical issues which we are also taking into account as a Ministry this financial year and they are re-classification of roads which we intend to bring to this House. There is also the review of the Engineers Registration Act. This is intended to strengthen and enhance professionalism amongst our engineers so that they are able to do our roads within some bench-marks which they must not, at any time ignore. The adoption of the Road Sector Investment Plan which is a 20- year plan is going to be a road-map in our road ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Let me touch briefly on the achievements and performance of the year 2009/2010. The Ministry has been able to meet nearly all its physical targets as per the Performance Evaluation Committee. At the end of the financial year, the Ministry had achieved targets as follows: We had planned to reconstruct and rehabilitate roads totalling 274 kilometres. We managed 315 kilometres which exceeds the target by 14 per cent. We also intended to do new construction of 350 kilometres and we managed 385 kilometres which exceeds the target by 10 per cent. Roads 2000, we had planned 1,500 kilometres and we ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with my colleagues when they talk about roads. view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the hon. Members for their contribution. I want to assure them that their sentiments, hard as they maybe, have been heard. I will take appropriate action to rationalise and synchronise the situation, so that it is acceptable to all of us. The roads which have been mentioned like Kitale-Nadapal, the Kshs5,000 put in there, in budgetary language, is taken to mean a token amount. It means it is available for support any time within the financial year. If it does not appear at all, it is nowhere at all. So, you ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to indicate that I have also noted the issue on staff of the Ministry and I take it seriously. Hon. Members have reported to me as stated by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of 10 per cent, I will be meeting with the relevant Committees next week to explain ourselves why it happened they way it happened. So, I am sure we will be able to reach an understanding with the relevant Committees next week. view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On the issue of delay in disbursement of funds from the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA), I want to indicate that that was not our intention. It was necessitated by the fact that the enactment of the relevant law; the amendment of the Finance Bill that affected the disbursement of funds under the Kenya Roads Board Act was done late in December. I want to assure this House that 50 per cent of the funds for Constituency Roads Committees (CRCs) for this year will be released before the end of two weeks today, so that you start working on it. ... view