Hon. Fred Gumo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I also thank the Deputy Prime view
• 18 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply. view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (a) The Masinga Dam and its buffer zone covers approximately 16,985.4 hectares. Out of this, 10, 206.7 hectares are in Masaku County Council, 10.1 hectares are in Murang’a County Council, 6,764 hectares are in Mbeere County Council, while the land under Kirinyaga County Council covers 4.2 hectares. These parcels of land were trust land and were acquired through respective county councils under the Land Acquisition Act, Chapter 295, for the development of Masinga Multi-purpose Dam which is of national importance, for hydro power generation and integrated development. view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (b) TARDA has not entered into any formal agreements with these local councils in regard to ownership of the said land. The amount of money paid by TARDA to the councils to date is as follows: view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: The total payment due to Mbeere County Council is Kshs1,711, 638 while the amount paid is Kshs800,000. The outstanding balance is Kshs 911,638. For Masaku County Council, the total payment due is Kshs1,420,000. Nothing has been paid so far, so the same amount is still outstanding. For Murang’a County Council, the total amount due is Kshs206,774 and nothing has been paid. For Kirinyaga County Council, the total view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the dam is still owned by TARDA, but the hydro power stations were transferred to KenGen sometimes back. We have been talking to Treasury to see whether they could pay some money to TARDA. Up to now, nothing has been done. The Treasury was supposed to compensate and pay some money to TARDA which was not done either. When this project was developed at that time, the amount of money that was supposed to be generated by this hydro power station by supplying electricity and selling it to KenGen was supposed to develop areas around Masinga. ... view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, right now I do not have it. There was no agreement between TARDA and KenGen. These assets were transferred by whoever was there. I do not know. view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, I have answered very clearly. The land was acquired through the Ministry of Lands. It was a trust land. TARDA was supposed to be paying rates to the county council which they have not been view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was no agreement. There was only council resolution minutes. view