Humphrey Kimani Njuguna

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I concur with some Members who have said that it is important to support our contractors, but then the mwananchi is refusing to award them contracts. She is saying that those people have failed in the past. They are proposing the Chinese to construct the roads. This is very interesting. Even as we support our own, we need to ask ourselves what has gone wrong, so that we can address that question. It is important that we support our contractors. In fact, any road below 20 kilometres is supposed to go to the citizens of Kenya. Any road above 20 ... view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: When we construct roads like the Thika-Nairobi Highway, there are questions which are very disturbing. After every five kilometres in the Thika-Nairobi Highway, you get bumps, which create traffic jams. Is it that we do not have the discipline required? That is because bumps are only in this country? What ought to be done? What should we do because that road was supposed to clear traffic jams? Woe unto you if you are travelling over the weekends or another place, the traffic jam starts all the way from Kenol to Witeithie in Mangu because of the bumps. The discipline in ... view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I support this Bill, its intentions and the authorities which it is establishing. Thank you. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to the Kenya Roads Bill. I will be brief. The spirit of this Bill cannot be underestimated. We are giving roads approximately Kshs200 billion in the 2016/2017 Financial Year Budget. This shows the importance of infrastructure. As we are aware, one of the things that President Kibaki’s administration shall be remembered for is his contribution to the road network in this country. That transformed this country. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: We are talking of the 10,000 kilometres of road annuity programme that the Jubilee Government has already initiated. In fact, in the last couple of months, there has been a lot of activity in the commissioning of roads. They are either pretentious shows or actual commissioning of tenders towards this programme. So, there is one important component of this Bill that moving forward, we cannot underestimate the role of infrastructure in the economic growth and development in this country. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: We are alive to the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, where we have the county government and the national Government. In the recent past, there has been vagueness and conflict between county governments and the national Government. We have been in the mix. Governors are saying that some roads are supposed to be constructed by the county governments and the national Government wants to construct them. This Bill tries to remove this ambiguity and conflict by way of classification. This will enable us to know the roads which the national Government shall deal with and the ones which county governments shall ... view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: because we know the problems we have been encountering with our constituents. They are asking what the national Government is doing towards roads construction and maintenance. This Bill seeks to remove this vagueness and conflict with finality. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: It is very important to have this classification because we want uniformity in the way roads are constructed. Once we talk about classification that goes to KeNHA, then there will be uniformity in primary roads throughout the country. If KeNSRA board deals with secondary roads, there will be uniformity in these roads. The issue of capacity must be dealt with in infrastructure. Our county governments might lack the capacity to deal with primary and secondary roads. So, when these roads are earmarked on by KeNHA and KeNSRA, then we know for sure there will be uniformity in the way these ... view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The other thing that we need to appreciate is the fact that moving forward, it will not be business as usual in the Jubilee Government. This is something that we need to congratulate the Government about. I am happy to hear the contributions of the Leader of the Majority Party that we have roads in North Eastern Kenya and everywhere. Roads are being constructed. If we are talking about this country achieving the two digits economic growth, this is a serious sector. The spirit is good. This Bill needs to be supported because of the role it will play towards ... view
• 27 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise in support of this Bill. I also take cognisance of the proposed amendments, particularly from Hon. Millie Odhiambo and the other Hon. Members, who have talked about the need to have a legal framework because, constitutionally, the focus was on the benefit to the indigenous community. As I support this Bill, I recognise the fact that we need to come up with amendments to develop a legal framework so that the local community can benefit. This Bill is about indigenous seeds and plant varieties. It is recognition of the fact that we ... view