Hon. Fred Gumo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 171 to 180 of 264.

• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I said very clearly that, the Coast Development Authority (CDA) has the freedom to undertake any development projects but, at the moment, they have not bought this land. They do not even have money with which to buy it, but as we go on, things can change. So, I am not going to commit myself by saying that we are not going to buy this land. It is possible that we can buy it even tomorrow, but at the moment we are not buying the land. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) As at now, TARDA has cleared all the outstanding wage bills amounting to Kshs2,849,893 at the Tana Delta Irrigation Project. In this regard, TARDA does not owe any salary arrears to the workers. (b) The number of casual workers who were affected by the delayed payment of salaries, but who have now been paid up, was 238. (c) The Authority was unable to clear the outstanding wages on time due to lack of sufficient operating revenue from the project, because the irrigation scheme had collapsed in 1997. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this particular irrigation scheme was initiated in 1997. It was a rice project. Immediately it was initiated – in the first year – there were the El Nino rains, which destroyed the whole scheme. People had already been employed. So, the project did not, really, operate. I am sure that the hon. Member knows very well that the project never operated. So, the people who had been employed at that particular time could not be laid off. They were kept in employment, although the project was not going on. That was why the problem arose, ... view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this particular irrigation scheme, about 98.8 per cent of the employees come from the locality I have a list of the names here. From the list of names, it looks as if these people come from that particular area. There are a few people who came from other places. I would like to assure the hon. Member that, as the Minister responsible for this particular regional body, I will make sure that the majority of the people who will work in this particular scheme will come from the local area, so that we do ... view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is a completely different Question, because it is referring to the KVDA. All the same, the problem with some of these Authorities is that they have over-employed. People are just sitting there. They are not working. In fact, they should be telling me to sack them. We are keeping them there on humanitarian grounds. Otherwise, the majority of them are doing nothing .They should be sacked. However, at the moment, it is better for them to be there on temporary basis rather than be removed. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now looking for money to make sure that these projects run. For a long time, most of these projects have not been running. It was not even easy to pay these people. I am sure that if these people were removed from employment, the same Member of Parliament would have come here and asked why they were sacked. So, he should be grateful that I am able to keep people from his constituency in employment; they just sit and are paid for doing nothing. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is because of bad politics. Even in the Government today, we have so many people who are being paid and are doing very little work. Most of these things were political. However, today we are trying to re-organise them so that we can pay them for what they are doing. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Dr. Khalwale is one of the MPs who are doing nothing and he is being paid. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is enough! However, the hon. Member should know that old is gold. We are now trying to re-organise most of these authorities to make sure they get enough money and that they are running at full capacity, so that people who have been sitting idle can be fully occupied. We would like to make sure that most of them are more productive than ever before, instead of getting rid of them. view
• 3 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view