Isaack Shaban

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 51 to 60 of 132.

• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this financial year, the Ministry has allocated approximately Kshs70 million to improve mobility on non-motorised transport and road safety initiative within 27 urban centres. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not aware that the traffic lights in those two towns are not working. I know that some are working and other are not. But we are working to ensure that those that are non-functional will become functional immediately. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question I have been asked is about traffic lights. But there have been many efforts made to decongest Nairobi City and other urban centres, including the improvement and increasing the number of traffic lights. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important to allow traffic lights to work independently without police interference. But during rush hours, in the morning and evening, sometimes, there are more vehicles on one particular road than the other and, therefore, in order to ease the movement of vehicles and human traffic, it is important that the police are there during those times to assist in decongestion. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: MEASURES TO PREVENT DUPLICATION IN INCORPORATION OR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES FOR COMPANIES 3962 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 28, 2006 view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The criteria used to increase City Council house rents are as follows. There was survey and comparison of house rents of similar houses in the City with market rates. Market surveys indicated that City Council rates were reasonably below the market rates. A two-bedroomed council house in Jericho or Lumumba in Makadara Constituency was previously at Kshs900 per month. After the increment it is now at Kshs1,260 per month, while a similar house in the private sector in the neighbourhood is at Kshs3,000 per month per room, meaning a rent of ... view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the rents for these houses were increased vide Gazette Notice No.8494 of 14th December, 2001. There has not been any other gazettement to cancel the same. Therefore, the rents will continue to be paid until that gazette notice is cancelled. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the hon. Member's question. It is true that many of these houses have not been properly maintained. But we have instructed the Nairobi November 8, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3459 City Council to ensure that these houses are properly maintained now that it is charging tenants more money than it was doing previously. We have instructed the Nairobi City Council to ensure that these houses are properly maintained. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are going to prepare a policy paper on housing since one of the core businesses of this Ministry includes supervision of low cost housing. Once that is in place, we shall definitely consider giving houses to Kenyans so that they can own them. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we appreciate the fact that those houses are in a low maintenance situation. We will instruct the Nairobi City Council to start rehabilitating the houses now that they increased rents. We shall also tell them to maintain and rehabilitate the houses in phases so that the tenants can have decent houses. view