Henry Obwocha

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 171.

• 19 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you know, we have the Electricity Regulatory Board. Those provisions are contained in the Energy Bill that is coming. The provisions will cater for a regulatory body to regulate the oil, electricity and other services that fall under the Ministry of Energy. view
• 19 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also said when I was moving the Energy Bill that we have fast-tracked the issue of rural electrification. Nine hundred and forty projects will go on until 30th June, all over the country without discrimination. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company has approximately Kshs3 billion from the customers and Kshs2 billion from the Government. Therefore, this Kshs5 billion will be used to supply electricity to secondary schools, markets and individual customers. Therefore, I can assure the hon. Member that this is on track. view
• 19 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, that question is similar because I have assured the House that the Ministry and the KPLC are undertaking those projects together. If you divide 940 projects by 210 constituencies, each constituency will probably get about 4 projects. Four projects in a constituency will make you get re-elected to this House again. view
• 17 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy October 17, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2937 Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Ministry of Energy, I beg to reply. (a) It is estimated that it will cost the Ministry a total of Kshs20.5 million to provide electricity to Kunati, Mulika and Mbaranga markets in Tigania East Constituency. This is broken down as follows: Kunati Market, Kshs7.2 million; Mulika Market, Kshs8.4 million, and Mbaranga Market, Kshs4.9 million. (b) The Ministry has not failed to supply electricity to the said trading centres. In fact, the request for supply of power to these centres was only made to the Ministry by ... view
• 17 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, I confirm that. If the hon. Member makes a request to me, we will supply electricity to those schools. We have projected 940 projects all over the country. We will not deny any constituency electricity. In fact, that is the best way to seduce the constituencies that are against the Government. So, we will implement the rural electrification programme in every constituency. view
• 17 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my predecessor knows that when we were on the Opposition side, the Government was denying us development. We will not do the same. For the question he has raised, there are three types of contractors. First of all, we gave the KPLC team itself. Then we have Labour and Transport. The final one which we intend to give is the outside one. I want to assure the hon. Member that we have taken into account what he has requested; that standards must be maintained throughout. Therefore, we will make sure that the standards are maintained. view
• 17 Oct 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I intend to visit every constituency, when time is available, to initiate and launch some of these projects. So, I want to assure the hon. Member that I intend to go to Tigania East Constituency. They are my cousins! view
• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. This Question relates to the Participatory Poverty Assessment that was done in July, 2005. (a) The research assistants (eight posts) and team leaders (two posts) were selected from a pool of non-successful applicants who had applied for positions in the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) advertised in 2004. The Participatory Poverty Assessment is part of the KIHBS. The organisers felt that we should pick the candidates from there. (b) In Tharaka District, 15 candidates were short listed from the KIHBS applicants. They were interviewed and ranked using a criteria developed for use ... view
• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the hon. Member has a different list of the candidates who were taken other than the one I have read out, he should lay it on the Table so that we can compare them. view
• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said that the Participatory Poverty Assessment is part of the KIHBS. We received many applications when we advertised for the posts. We decided that instead of re-advertising for the posts, since that was a "son" of the "mzee", we take the candidates from that list. view