Joshua Ngugi Toro

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 405.

• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no reason Samburu District is not covered. When development partners come, they indicate the districts they want to fund for the programme. Maybe, eventually they will come to Samburu District. However, it is them who give their priority areas which they want to cover. May 16, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1353 view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in some cases, the procurement takes long because of the conditionalities by the development partners. In almost all cases, it involves local consultants joining those from funding countries. The procurement then follows the Government procurement procedures which is a bit lengthy. However, time is also taken to identify and prioritise the roads that will be constructed in every district. view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason we involve development partners in Roads 2000 Programme is that the Government does not have the capacity to repair all the roads in the country. However, once the programme is completed, it will be easier for the District Roads Committees (DRCs) to maintain the roads. We could spend as little as Kshs100,000 per year to maintain a road that has been constructed under the programme as opposed to the current situation where the DRCs cannot even afford to inject Kshs2 million or Kshs3 million into a particular road. view
• 26 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that this House adopted a Motion on 17th November, 2004 to amend the Kenya Roads Board Act and the Constituencies Development Fund Act in order to empower the Constituencies Development Fund Committees to manage roads funds which are distributed to constituencies. (b) The Motion will be implemented as soon as the proposed amendments initially contained in the Miscellaneous Amendments Bill 2004 and now contained in Miscellaneous Amendments Bill 2007 are enacted by Parliament. view
• 26 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has no problem with the implementation of this Motion. There is nothing we can do until the Bill passes through Parliament. view
• 26 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that question should be directed to the Leader of Government Business and the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs because we have no control or power as a Ministry to say when the Statutes Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill will be brought to Parliament and prioritised for debate. view
• 26 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have been advised that the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2007 is on the way coming. view
• 26 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Statute Law Miscellaneous Amendments Bill contains amendments to other statutes. What the Ministry is now pursuing is the Kenya Roads Board Bill, which seeks to reform the roads sector. The other one is not confined to Kenya Roads Board (KRB) and Constituencies Development Fund Act only, but also other statutes. view
• 26 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, as the Ministry, have done our part. If the Ministry had refused to implement the Motion as passed by Parliament, that is the time we would be taken to task. But we have done our part. We have agreed to the amendments that Mr. Kimeto is talking about. But we have no control over the Attorney-General. view
• 25 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me take this opportunity to, first, apologise for coming late. I have been in a traffic jam for the last two hours. Having apologised, I would like to proceed and correct Mr. Bett by saying that there were no variation order. The original contract sum is as stated. What has happened is that there was some delays initially because, this being the first concrete road we are making, we could not proceed without getting all the parameters right. We could not start construction and then after doing a 100 metres, we demolish what has been ... view